E. Michael Burke Quotes
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
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There's 5 levels of fatness! Fluffy is one of the levels. There's big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn.
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The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.
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I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
