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Julie Burchill Quotes

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: July 3, 1959

Topics

Face Fast Said Out Passport Pretty

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Robert Krulwich

Think Trouble Way More Borders Wars

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

Robert Lefkowitz

Alone Great Time Child Reading Get

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Consequences Down Everyone Banquet

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others wait for inspiration.

Day Wait Every Day Down Three Mood

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Good Thankful Time Feel Friends

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

Day School Airplane High School You

You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you can add to the vision - but you just can't make an artist like that. That's like saying Lebron James' high school coach made Lebron James.

Vision School Support Saying Think

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

Father Character Myself Me You Nose

I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon.

Work Girl Week Old Out Rocket

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.

Great Challenge Reality Finding Will

Crisis creates opportunity.

Opportunity Crisis Creates

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

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