David Burnett Quotes
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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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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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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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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
