Burt Young (Gerald Tommaso DeLouise) Quotes
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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I love Africa.
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.
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The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than Sargent thinks. But he went on to agree that impressionists had noted how strong
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In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
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I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.
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The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.
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I learned a lot in my life by paying attention and listening to how people around me worked.
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Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!
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I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.
