Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
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You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
