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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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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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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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
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We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
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I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
