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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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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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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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
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I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
