John Burnside Quotes
I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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I don't interfere with regulators.
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I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.
