Burt Reynolds Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.
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It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.
