James Burrows Quotes

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

James Burrows

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I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Jodie Foster

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Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Jeff Mangum

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I love seeing fashion from the past making a comeback.

Jeffree Star

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Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.

Amber Mark

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Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

Jean Chatzky

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It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

Jason Robert Brown

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Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

Javier Bardem

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I particularly like the bookshops at National Parks and battlefields; they often have very unusual and helpful things.

Diana Gabaldon

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I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

Drew Barrymore

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I keep my inner circle of people very small and tight, and I like to relax if I get a chance.

Dean Ambrose

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I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go.

Peter Bondra

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Instead of more talk about salmon and high-speed rails, more criticism of the Supreme Court or more praise for the Soviet's Sputnik mission - President Obama should use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people the truth about the fundamental financial challenges our country faces.

Tim Griffin

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