Bryan Burrough Quotes
I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.
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There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
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Out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.
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Whether he plays, pinch-hits, whatever, he's certainly going to be a force. Emotionally, it can be a big lift for them. . . . I don't know if it will change the playoff race or not, but I know they're excited about getting him back.
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I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
