Ian Burden (Ian Charles Burden) Quotes
Everyone involved was surprised. We all liked what we’d done, but had no idea it would become so widely enjoyed.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
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I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
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Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.
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The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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Everyone involved was surprised. We all liked what we’d done, but had no idea it would become so widely enjoyed.
