Ty Burrell Quotes

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

Ty Burrell

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

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• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

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• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

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• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

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• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

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• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

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• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

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• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

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• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

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• It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

  

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• On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

  

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• Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

  

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• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

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• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

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• We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'

  

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• I have adopted an 80/20 rule when it comes to my delicate relationship with food: 80 percent of the time, I make good choices; 20 percent of the time, I let myself splurge a little.

  

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• My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

  

  Ty Burrell
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Together