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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Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.
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Travers's Mary Poppins was a natural phenomena, ancient as mountain ranges, on first-name terms with the primal powers of the universe, adored and respected by everything that saw the world as it was. And she was a mystery. … philosophically, I suspect now, the universe of Mary Poppins underpins all my writing …
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Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
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I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.
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Life is always at some turning point.
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I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
