John Burnside Quotes
Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
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I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.
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You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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'Doctor Who' is really close to my heart, and I felt like I was a part of it at the best time, with Russell T.
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I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.
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A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.
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Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.
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The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
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Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.
