Heather Burns Quotes
I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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Robots... I think that is a hot topic.
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We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
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I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
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I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.
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They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
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I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
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Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
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It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
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Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
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Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
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The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.
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I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
