John Burdett Quotes
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
Quotes to Explore
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
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Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
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One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.
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To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
