Burt Lancaster Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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The world is always in movement.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.
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To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
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The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.
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My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
