John Burnside Quotes
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
Dan Colen -
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Gail Z. Martin -
I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
Yolanda Adams -
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
Sam Raimi -
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
Cameron Winklevoss -
My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
Manny Montana
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand -
At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
Hailey Gates -
I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
Ranbir Kapoor -
My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
Parris Glendening -
Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
Viktor Orban -
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis -
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
Edie Falco -
If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
Nancy Kress -
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Patrick Stewart
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Kai Bird -
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing -
I've never outgrown my childhood.
David McCallum -
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers -
We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer -
The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.
John Burnside