John Burnside Quotes
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.
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To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
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People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
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If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
