Saffron Burrows Quotes
I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Broadway is really my life.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.
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Oh he ain't worth missin'Oh we should be kissin'Stop all this foolish wishin'He ain't worth missin'I know your head is turnin'I know your heart is burnin'Girl you gotta listenDon't you know he ain't worth missin'
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You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
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I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
