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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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with 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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It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
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Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
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The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
