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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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.
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That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.
