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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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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I had the feeling that as a soldier I didn't do what I thought I had it in me to do, and wanted to do.
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Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
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I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.
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For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.
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Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.
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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.
