"If you put somebody on a crack pipe……" — James Lee Burke
"If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next."
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55 Quotes by James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
- We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent…
- I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
- Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever…
- ...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the…
- Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
- Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard…
- That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can…
- When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your…
- There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
- But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned…
- I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make…
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