Gelett Burgess Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.
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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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I have three favorite cities: London, Wellington, and Los Angeles. What makes them so good? The friends who live there.
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
