Eric Burns Quotes
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
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Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.
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Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
