James Lee Burke Quotes
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
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Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.
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I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
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You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
