Bryan Burrough Quotes
'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I don't like allegories.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
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Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
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So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.
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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
