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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
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I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.
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Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
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I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.
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Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
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