Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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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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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.
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'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'
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She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.
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I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.
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I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.
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Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
