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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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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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
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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.
