John Burnside Quotes
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
John Burnside
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
G-Eazy
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I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
Adam Mansbach
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
Tama Janowitz
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
Calista Flockhart
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
Jack Ma
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
Vincent Cassel
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
Kat Dennings
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In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.
John Eisenhower
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Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.
Allan Ray
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In times like these, a journalist's contribution to his country is measured in terms of illustrious commitment and sacrifice, ... There was no one more devoted to his calling than David Bloom and for that we are both grateful and humbled.
Bob Wright
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One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
John Burnside
