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Bryan Burk (born December 30, 1968) is an American film and television producer, as well as an occasional television writer.
A graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television, Bryan Burk began his career working with producers Brad Weston at Columbia Pictures, Ned Tanen at Sony Pictures and John Davis at FOX. In 1995, he joined Gerber Pictures, where he developed TNT's Emmy-nominated "James Dean", and is currently attached to produce "NFL: A Love Story."
He has collaborated with J. J. Abrams frequently and is the co-founder of his production company Bad Robot Production. TV series he's worked with Abrams on include, Alias, Six Degrees, What About Brian, Lost, Fringe, Undercovers, Person of Interest, and Alcatraz. He has also served as a producer for Abrams' feature films, Cloverfield, Star Trek, and Super 8.
In 2009, Burk co-wrote the story, with Akiva Goldsman (teleplay by Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman), for the season one finale of Fringe, "There's More Than One of Everything".
Dark horse is a term used to describe a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.
The term began as horse racing parlance. A dark horse is a race horse that is not known to gamblers and thus is difficult to place betting odds on.
The earliest-known use of the phrase is in Benjamin Disraeli's novel The Young Duke (1831). Disraeli's protagonist, the Duke of St. James, attends a horse race with a surprise finish: "A dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
The term has been used politically in such countries as Peru, Philippines and United States.
Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot, and went on to win the presidential election.
Staying straight, got me so strung out
Being sure just put me in doubt
Your teaching really made me dumb
Don't call me slacker 'cuz I am a bum
Hang around the wrong kind of streets
Can't get out but I can take the heat
Smokin' cigarettes 'til I choke 'cuz
I was born baby, born to be broke
Born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Born broke
Down another six-pack
Please get 'em off my back
If I can keep the I.R.S. away
From my guitar I will be okay
'Cuz I'm broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
I'm born broke, born broke
Staying straight, got me so strung out
Being sure just put me in doubt
Your teaching really made me dumb
Don't call me slacker 'cuz I am a bum
Hang around the wrong kind of streets
Can't get out but I can take the heat
Smokin' cigarettes 'til I choke
'Cuz I was born baby, born to be broke
Born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Yes, I'm born broke
I'm broke
Yes, I'm born broke
Yes, I'm born broke