Burnie Burns Quotes
When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
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I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'
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Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
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The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.
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When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.
