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The best person to get something done is a busy person. — Mark Burnett

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. — Carol Burnett

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. — Mark Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. — T Bone Burnett

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes. — Carol Burnett

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well. — Leo Burnett

Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

So no I'm not perfect. I'm still as fucked up as I always was, the only difference is that now I'm happy with it. I accept it and make the best of it. — R.S. Burnett

They're serious"
"Well I hope so, they are getting married — R.S. Burnett

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. — Hallie Burnett

Do you two have history?"
"We used to friends"
"Used to be?"
"When I left, I never wanted to see him again — R.S. Burnett

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I told you, they are for a friend."
Burnett's eyes rounded. "Miranda? Shit! I had the same God damned talk with Perry. — C.C. Hunter

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ... — Ivy Compton-Burnett

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.' — Leo Burnett

side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. — Leo Burnett

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged. — A. J. Burnett

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I have never been with an ugly woman!" he argues.
"You've never been with one that can tie her own shoe laces either — R.S. Burnett

Did I mention how much I've missed you? — R.S. Burnett

I only just met you, I can't lick you when I don't even know you — R.S. Burnett

Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility. — Leo Burnett

What would be your first thought if you woke up naked, next to me in bed?"
"Huh ... it's kind of warm considering hell has just frozen over — R.S. Burnett

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all. — T Bone Burnett

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me. — T Bone Burnett

I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it. — Tom Burnett

Justice is mercy's highest self. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Why don't you tell people what happened last night"
"You slept on the sofa!"
"And why is that?"
"Because you're ... incompetent — R.S. Burnett

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me! — Frances Hodgson Burnett

A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different. — Thomas Burnett Swann

Fine, I just wanted to feel like me again"
"Babe, you were naked"
"Yeah well it worked so get over it — R.S. Burnett

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' — Leo Burnett

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are. — David Burnett

No one's going to watch The Bible on primetime TV. — Mark Burnett

Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers. — Carol Burnett

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Who the hell do you think you girls are? Charlie's Angels? — C.C. Hunter

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington. — Carol Burnett

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. — Carol Burnett

You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn't go a miss either — R.S. Burnett

you are going to be sent home....
I 'm glad of it
but where's HOME ? — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm not going to let you walk out on me again."
"I'm not walking out on you Tucker. I'm walking out on us. — R.S. Burnett

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic. — David Burnett

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling. — David Burnett

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I need to breathe" I manage to get out, his hold on me loosens slightly.
"I need you — R.S. Burnett

to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. — Carol Burnett

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you. — David Burnett

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity. — Burnett Hillman Streeter

I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me. — Leo Burnett

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. — Carol Burnett

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. — Dana Carvey

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else. — Mark Burnett

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. — Edward Burnett Tylor

Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret ... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing. — Carol Burnett

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it. — Mark Burnett

Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them. — Carol Burnett

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo. — Mark Burnett

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. — Mark Burnett

Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future. — Jackson Burnett

People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.' — Leo Burnett

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. — Leo Burnett

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. — Leo Burnett

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. — Edward Burnett Tylor

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett

Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Politeness never was one of your strong points"
"Bitch was always one of yours though — R.S. Burnett

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. — Leo Burnett

The prairie skies can always make you see more
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett

Death is always sudden however long one waits. — Frances Hodgson Burnett