Burgess Owens Quotes
There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.
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The difference between winning this game and losing it is, you might say, the difference between facing big games now and desperation games.
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If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.
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As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
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There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
