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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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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I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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I know I have one of the best jobs in the world. These days, models are allowed to have bigger personalities and be celebrities on their own.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
