Edward Burtynsky Quotes
I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.
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I don't want to spread myself so thin that I achieve nothing.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
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Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.
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I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
