John Burdett Quotes
In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we're going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
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In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
