Abe Burrows Quotes
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
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I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.
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The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.
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The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself.
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
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Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.
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I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
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I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.
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The only safe thing is to take a chance.
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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.
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A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
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It’s about sensuality and femininity, along with a touch of glamour.
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Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
