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 do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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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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Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
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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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I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.
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It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.
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In my view, it is unreasonable for EPA to exclude considerations of costs in determining whether it is 'appropriate' to impose significant new regulations on electric utilities.
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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.
