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When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

~Christopher Masterson

Topics: About Acres Burned Burning Down Empty Ended Entire Field Found Friend Got Grounded Lighting Me Mistake Months My Friend Out Size Think Three Up Were I Think

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I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

~Cillian Murphy

Topics: America Burning Certainly Like Live Passion Per Work Would

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I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

~Claire Bloom

Topics: Accomplished Ambition Burning Had Otherwise

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With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire to teach the world how to become successful, Napoleon Hill devoted nearly his entire adult lifetime creating practical content entrepreneurs need to become successful.

~Clay Clark

Topics: Absolute Adult Andrew Become Burning Burning Desire Carnegie Content Creating Desire Devoted Diligence Entire Entrepreneurs Help Hill His How Lifetime Napoleon Nearly Need Personal Practical Successful Teach World

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I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

~Clive Cussler

Topics: American Burning Could Felt Fiction Great Great American Hand Inside Me Novel Popular Try

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Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

~Cornel West

Topics: Against Burning Certain Fire Kind Longer Means Pushed Really Soul Tolerate Wall

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I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: According Alive Author Brief Burning Candle Certainly Characters Development Don Quixote Elizabeth Fiction Fictional Grows Invention Lives May Me More Our Our Lives Out Outlive Own Quixote Sharp Simply Sun Think Will You I Think

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Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

~Cyrus S. Poonawalla

Topics: Along Always Breeding Burning Burning Desire Carried Clean Clean Up Club Committee Desire Elected Enthusiast Gambling Had Horse Horse Racing Manipulation Member Passion Racing Sport Steward Stigma Subsequently Up Which

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I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

~Danny Elfman

Topics: Burning Burning Desire Desire Having Myself Necessarily See Symphony Write

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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Also Another Area Burning Carbon Change Climate Climate Change Drain Energy Global Habit Important Kick Making Move Need One Area Onto Our Really Resources Stop Then Things Wreck You

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