Burt Reynolds Quotes
But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
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Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.
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I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
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If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
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But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.
