John Burnside Quotes
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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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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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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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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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
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Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
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I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.
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I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
