Burt Reynolds Quotes
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.
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The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
