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 think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Relevance is kind of a weird thing. If one does topical material, it makes sense to want to be relevant. But if someone talks about donut sprinkles, it's not quite as important. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision outlawing donut sprinkles.
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Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.
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I have been playing video games since the Atari 2600 days.
