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.
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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.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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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.
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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.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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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.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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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.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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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.
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GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.
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Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
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We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.
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I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.
