John Burdett Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.
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Chosing to stay in the moment, is choosing to be free from fear.
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I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.
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The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.
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In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
