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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There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.
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How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.
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So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.