John Burns Quotes
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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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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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I want to have a long career.
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I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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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 understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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Embrace the fear and go for it. That's what I do. I don't run from it - I embrace the fear.
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I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.
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Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants. For most of us it's both - and a lot more complicated.
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When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
