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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There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
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I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.
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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
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In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
