Quotes by Mark Burnett - Page 1

Facing your fears robs them of their power.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Inspirational
Power
Strength
Fear
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No one's going to watch The Bible on primetime TV.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Tvs
Watches
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He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
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Dream
Metaphor
Peter
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The best person to get something done is a busy person.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Inspirational
Best
Busy
Busy Person
Done
Person
Get
Something
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I'm not at all overextended... I'm very, very hands-on.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Very
Hands-On
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Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Attitude
Belief
Character
Produce
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Bug eating and backstabbing are the stuff of great entertainment.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Backstabbing
Bugs
Stuff
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We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Celebrate
Gates
Mad
Bill
Bill Gates
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You don't need to make shows about sex and drugs and violence to get ratings.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Drug
Needs
Sex
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There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Inspirational
Effort
Hustle
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The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Internet
Next
World
Broadcast
Network
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I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
War
Conversation
Engaged
People
Real
Wars
Firsthand
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You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Analysis
Heard
Paralysis
Creates
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There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Gas
Gas Stations
Needs
Screens
Shopping
Content
Gas Station
Mall
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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Focus
Heart
Lying
Needed
Purity
Solitude
Bush
Lies
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My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Failing
Frightened
Mean
Realizing
Fail
Mantra
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America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
America
Feel Better
Giving
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An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Beautiful
Music And Life
Unique
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My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Survivor
Time Family Business
Family Business
Family Time Business
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I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Kind
Roles
Want
Shot
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Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Kings
Entertaining
Screens
Statements
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'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Entertaining
Screens
Content
Needing
Statement
Truer
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You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Hours
Television
Treats
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How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Beer
Dinner
Great Business
Ideas
Thinking
Business Great People
How Many Times
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I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Dream
Metaphor
Names
Peter
Associated
Pan
Peter Pan
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Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Fun
Play
Thinking
Element
Viewer
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Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Remains
Series
Survivor
Television
Watches
Benchmark
Downward
Trend
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I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Adversity
Goal
Risk
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I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Computer
Honestly
Multiple
News
Screens
Thinking
Years
Anyway
Time Will Doing
Watched
Checking
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You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean, the audience knows, and if you give them a Biblical story, you better get it right.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Biblical
Giving
Mean
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In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
War
Active
Airplane
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Teens
Two
Budget
Tours
Joined
Northern
Parachute
Regiment
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In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Australia
Class
Cutting
Europe
Social
Social Class
Succeed
Tall
Cut
Down
Poppy
Syndrome
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There's no reason the story of Christianity wouldn't be more prevalent in film and television considering the audience size who love and believe the stories. This is a broad audience and deserves to be on broadcast TV.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Believe
Size
Tvs
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The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn't the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk - that's the new prime time, isn't it?
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Broadband
Games
Night
Playing Games
Prime Time
Real
Time Your Day
Tv
Time Your Night
Time Night Day
Desk
More People
Therefore
Wired
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Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Journey
Book
Caves
Character
Scripts
Years Ago
Plays
Shakespeare
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Jobs
Home
Procrastination
Get Married
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In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Chairs
Desert
Lauren
Leather
Like You
Ad
Africa
Camp
Old
Jack
Meets
Oriental
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
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I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Beverly Hills
Children
Hills
People
Rich People
Smarter
Years
Me People Care
Beverly
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As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.
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Adventure
Islands
Real
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I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
America
Country
Don't Care
School
Deliver
Graduated
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'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 / Television Producer
Finance
Big Mac
Brands
Coca Cola
Corporate
Rewards
Should Have
Sponsors
Survivor
Thinking
Cbs
Sell
Mac
First One
Helped
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When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Thank You
Patriotism
Approach
Fun
High Energy
Military
Stars
Stripes
Earn
Service
Shake
Thank
Uniform
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I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Zebras
Children
Horse
Rhinos
Time Great Ride
Across
Anywhere
Beat
Giraffes
Great Part
Great Time
Horses
Ride
Ride Horses
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One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I wanted with my life - money being no object - what would I do?" In many parts of the world, people don't have the luxury of asking that question.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
America
Luxury
People
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I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Jobs
America
People
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I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Adventure
Challenges
Experts
Race
Series
Cable
Expedition
Mainly
Outdoors
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I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Cutting
Decision
Guy
Indiana
Retreat
Rope
Uncertainty
Chased
Indiana Jones
Ladder
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So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Adventure
Grandpa
Relate
Cast
Cops
Expedition
Finding
So Many People
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