John Burnside Quotes
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The issue Israeli-Palestinian conflict, already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.
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I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.
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I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
