Saffron Burrows Quotes
My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
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Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
