Billie Burke Quotes

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Billie Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1884 - May 14, 1970

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A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

Jerrod Carmichael

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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Jennifer Ellison

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As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

John Caudwell

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I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

John Collison

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I like comedy as a group sport.

Maya Rudolph

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Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation's children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.

John Morgridge

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My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

Matthew Lesko

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I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.

Stromae

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The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

Steve Rushin

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If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

Roisin Murphy

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The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Mike Nichols

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We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

Moira Kelly

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