John Burnside Quotes
High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?
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Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.
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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
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It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
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High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.
