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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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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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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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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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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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
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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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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
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People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
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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.
