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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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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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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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I feel deeply responsible as a leader to pay it forward.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
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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.
