Edward Burns Quotes
It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I am a just man.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
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Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
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I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
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I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
