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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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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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.
