Bryan Burrough Quotes
All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I don't like possessions.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
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Now color - it is to this remark that I wished to lead - is the flower of fine modelling. These two qualities always accompany each other, and it is these qualities which give to every masterpiece of the sculptor the radiant appearance of living flesh.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
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All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
