Burt Shavitz Quotes
I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
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I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
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How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! … Even so, I think there is some virtue in eagerness, whether its object prove true or false.
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I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.
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I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.
