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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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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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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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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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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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.
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But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
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My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
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Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
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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.
