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 am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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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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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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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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I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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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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Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.
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The city of Houston has treated me really good.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.
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I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.
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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.
