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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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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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
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I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived.
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
