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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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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How cruelly sweet are the echoes that startWhen memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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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.
