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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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
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Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.
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I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.
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I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
