Ken Burns Quotes

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.

Ken Burns

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PeopleYouEditingMasterBeginOut

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Joe Arpaio

PeopleMeSome PeopleCallPublicity

You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.

Joel Osteen

GodChildBetterYouHighMost

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

John de Mol, Jr.

SpaceBrotherRealityDieEnough

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson

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If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'

Steve Scalise

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

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I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Mathieu Amalric

MyselfFeelMeetingAliveNeedAct

It's important for moms, but also dads, to recognize that they're role models when it comes to their kids' physical health, when it comes to working out, and when it comes to nutrition.

Dominique Dawes

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I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph

WomenHopeGreatMenPeopleGo

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

Chrissie Hynde

RoadFeelNothingBandAlwaysStage

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

Colin Baker

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One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'

Bruce McGill

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