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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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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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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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
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To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.
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I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.
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I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.
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One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
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Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.
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I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'
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Friday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city. Or, maybe the easiest. Because at five o'clock on a Friday nobody pays attention to anything. Except the road ahead.
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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.
