Allan James Burnett (A. J. Burnett) Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
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Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.
Colson Whitehead -
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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My belief is that people are innately good and innately do want to help their fellow man.
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People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton
