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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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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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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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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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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Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.
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We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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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.
