John Burns Quotes
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
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It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.
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I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.
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My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
