Edward Burns Quotes
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Drugs: 'There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.''How do you mean?''The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.'
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
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Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
