#thin

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#big mac #brands #cbs #coca-cola #corporate

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#experience #i #i think #junkies #looking

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him! ↗

— Dan Burton

#approval #congress #dad #department #dictatorial

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#cannot #change #congress #constitution #i

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#friendships #into #just #like #luck

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. ↗

— George W. Bush

#come #could #i #less #much

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again. ↗

— Terry Venables

#expect #going #history #i #itself

So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#blow #broke #episode #everything #faces

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ↗

— Nolan Bushnell

#about #difference #does #dries #ever