James Burrows Quotes
I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.
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The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
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I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.
