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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.


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BILL BURTON Unfortunately for Speaker Hastert and his special-interest cronies, ... one photo-op press conferenc...
BILL BURTON If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ...
BILL BURTON Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dres...
SARAH BURTON Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and ther...
NEEL BURTON In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the thera...
NEEL BURTON If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then ...
NEEL BURTON Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde...
NEEL BURTON As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no...
NEEL BURTON Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
CLIFF BURTON No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
ROBERT BURTON I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where ...
HILARIE BURTON Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON