Burnie Burns Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I'm also lumbered with the title of being a writer's writer, which is the worst possible reputation you can have, because, of course, other writers don't read other writers except to gain evidence against them. And it puts readers off.
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The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.
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Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.
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YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
