Burt Young (Gerald Tommaso DeLouise) Quotes
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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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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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
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At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.
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Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.
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I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.
