Steve Burns (Steven Michael Burns) Quotes
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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I just want to stay professional.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.
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Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
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I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
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Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
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The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.
