John Burnside Quotes
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
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Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.
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BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.
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Whenever you say that homophobia is stupid, you just get called gay.
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The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
