John Burnside Quotes

I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

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• I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Good
  • Different
  • Children

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Aging

• A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Path
  • Influence
  • Down

• It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • She
  • Almost

• Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Rules
  • Looking
  • Limits

• I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Prideful

• I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Playing
  • Train
  • Details

• If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Angry
  • Guitar

• You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Different
  • Me

• Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Future
  • House
  • Growth

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Better
  • Lights

• I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Money
  • Moving
  • Talent

• No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• America’s media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Percent

• Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Free
  • Thank

• My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

  

  Dave Malloy
  • Writing
  • Making
  • Approach

• I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

  

  John Burnside