Edward Burns Quotes
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.
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I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.
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I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.
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It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.
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How cruelly sweet are the echoes that startWhen memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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Drumming is my middle name.
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Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.
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Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don't feel that anything you do makes any difference. They're just kicking a ball against a wall, so to speak.
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I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.
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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
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The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
