Burt Lancaster Quotes
You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.
Quotes to Explore
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.
