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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

James Lee Burke

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James Lee Burke
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 5
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Houston
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..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?
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But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing and it is indeed a crime to allow the heart's energies to dissipate with the fading of light on the horizon.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
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Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
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Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
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We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.
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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.
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I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call traditional America.
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.
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I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.
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And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
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Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
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To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
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