Augusten Burroughs Quotes
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
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I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
