Gary Burton Quotes
I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
