Bill Burr Quotes
It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
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I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
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I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?
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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.
