Dean Burk Quotes
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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My home has always been show business.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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No one gets as tired as a tired tramp.
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
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Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.
