David Burnett Quotes
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
