Burton Cummings Quotes
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
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It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.
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When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.
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I don't think any one 'ship' - like a Bughead or a Barchie or Varchie fans - should give up hope at any time because you never know.
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I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
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When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
