Edward Burns Quotes
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I live a normal life.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.
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I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
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Just from a psychological standpoint, it's really helpful having films with a joyful message and positivity, so we try to do that with all our movies, really.
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So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.
