Saffron Burrows Quotes
I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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My health is fine.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
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I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.
