John Burnside Quotes
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.John Burnside
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
Barbet Schroeder -
With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
Eden Hazard -
I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali -
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett -
Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
Tammin Sursok
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks -
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
Harlan Coben -
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
Barry McGuire
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
Yi So-Yeon -
I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
J. B. Smoove -
My heroes were all in the theatre.
Damian Lewis -
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
Gary Oldman -
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
Carine Roitfeld -
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
Otis Redding
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Robert Altman was such an incredible person to have the privilege to know and meet and have dinner with.
Kelly Macdonald -
Old guys can still do fun things.
George H. W. Bush -
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Jack Schwartz -
My swelling heart for very anger breaks.
Christopher Marlowe -
Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!
Craig Bruce -
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
John Burnside