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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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for 'Galavant.' But 'Galavant' was quite a wide casting call. I wasn't recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.
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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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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
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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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If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
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I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
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I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.
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It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.
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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.
