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.John Burnside
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Jack Vance -
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.
Vincent Cassel -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. Rahman -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Tariq Ali
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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.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
Aaron Patzer -
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.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
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.
Maeve Binchy -
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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.
Calvin Johnson
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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.
Sam Rockwell -
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. Lawrence -
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.
Mao Zedong -
I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
Adam Carolla -
You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
Faye Dunaway -
I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.
Jim Hunt -
It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.
Pattie Boyd -
I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.
Bertrand Russell -
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne -
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
Kevin Spacey -
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.
John Burnside