Burnie Burns Quotes
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I love basketball.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
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Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.
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You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messed up. This life becomes a part of them. It's not real, but some guys who are still in the business think it is.
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Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.
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I have been playing video games since the Atari 2600 days.
