Burt Reynolds Quotes
I'm really much more like Phil Potter from the 1979 film Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit from Smokey and the Bandit, and I'm a lot more serious than that.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!
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I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
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I'm really much more like Phil Potter from the 1979 film Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit from Smokey and the Bandit, and I'm a lot more serious than that.
