John Burnside Quotes

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Freedom
  • Progress
  • Diversity

• Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Want
  • You
  • Feet

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Kind

• I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • World
  • Nature
  • Today

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

  

  Mario Andretti

• I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Wander

• You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Judging
  • Loving
  • Criticize

• People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Why
  • Father

• Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.

  

  David Morse
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

  

  John Burnside
  • Father
  • Pain