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 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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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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Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.
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I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
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I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.
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I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.
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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.
