Burton Silverman Quotes
I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I don't do meetings.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.
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I always miss New York when I leave it.
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I dated the same girl all through high school.
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I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
