John Burnside
Related LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON GREG LAKE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON RUDYARD KIPLING RON CHERNOW Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don&#... QUENTIN BLAKE JAMES NACHTWEY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in... CARLTON CUSE KRISTEN STEWART I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer t... PATTI STANGER If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat... JAMES SINEGAL OLIVIA HUSSEY FRANK DILLANE LAUREN OLIVER JOSEF PIEPER I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon'... AARON RUELL ARUNDHATI ROY CRAIG GROESCHEL MIRANDA RICHARDSON 'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to m... ADAM ROSS Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of wome... MILA KUNIS JOHN MCLAUGHLIN I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for cer... BARBARA KRUGER WENDY COPE I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't thin... DAVID WALLIAMS EDWARD WHITACRE, JR. Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other th... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING LOUIS TOMLINSON CATE BLANCHETT For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my ... LEWIS BLACK A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy... ROBERT SHECKLEY AURORA There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the who... DAVID LEVERING LEWIS ELVIS COSTELLO I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that. RON SHOCK Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fig... ALAN J. PAKULA ALAN ARKIN ALAN BALL Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They do... YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don&#... LEE SCOTT TED TURNER C. JOYBELL C. LAURA WASSER I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in s... CARRIE COON I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set. VANESSA PARADIS DAVID CHANG Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached... MARK TAKANO ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to Am... GEORGE H. W. BUSH LAUREN BACALL SPIKE LEE ISABEL ALLENDE ZOOEY DESCHANEL I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try... MEGYN KELLY EDDIE VEDDER To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not n... CAMPBELL BROWN ZOE KRAVITZ J. D. SOUTHER JOEL FUHRMAN YVES BEHAR TYLER COWEN Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go... DAVID MACKENZIE I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of... REID SCOTT I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes. MICHAEL OVITZ Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them qu... SHARON KAY PENMAN DREW BARRYMORE PAIGE VANZANT INGMAR BERGMAN CHRISTOPH WALTZ LEONARDO DICAPRIO JEAN-LUC GODARD CEELO GREEN I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock w... BRUNO DUMONT BETSY HODGES Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership t... LORETTA REYNOLDS I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot... ANTHONY HEAD I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT CRAIG GROESCHEL Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying t... JOEL COEN WILLIAM STYRON The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn abo... JACK HANNA I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't ... CECILE DE FRANCE KATHY GRIFFIN JEAN CHATZKY KARL MARLANTES IGGY AZALEA HUME CRONYN I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's on... PADDY CONSIDINE TED TURNER ETHEL MERMAN GAUTAM SINGHANIA AUDREY HEPBURN DREW CAREY CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS KATHERINE DUNHAM
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JOHN BURNSIDE Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my firs... JOHN BURNSIDE The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I... JOHN BURNSIDE Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage sch... JOHN BURNSIDE I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their compani... JOHN BURNSIDE The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural... JOHN BURNSIDE 'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to mo... JOHN BURNSIDE In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ours... JOHN BURNSIDE I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who reco... JOHN BURNSIDE What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gr... JOHN BURNSIDE For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the pr... JOHN BURNSIDE It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key ... JOHN BURNSIDE Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incr... JOHN BURNSIDE We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the comme... JOHN BURNSIDE High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, tea... JOHN BURNSIDE It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I c... JOHN BURNSIDE I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like... JOHN BURNSIDE What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor... JOHN BURNSIDE Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural a... JOHN BURNSIDE The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisa... JOHN BURNSIDE Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural worl... JOHN BURNSIDE The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us int... JOHN BURNSIDE My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some ... JOHN BURNSIDE My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he of... JOHN BURNSIDE I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b... 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The world is a beautiful place
I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my ... 
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. 
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't... 
I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty. 
I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, ... 
In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out t... 
I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet... 
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings th... 
It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the d... 
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing. 
I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater. 
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi... 
I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily ... 
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't... 
There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you&... 
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... 
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it o... 
If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'... 
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't nece... 
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to se... 
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the as... 
Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy. 
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of th... 
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it.... 
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. Americ... 
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give i... 
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want ... 
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic. 
I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl str... 
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... 
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely... 
If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion. 
Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somew... 
I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to se... 
I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on t... 
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered fro... 
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological ... 
If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is th... 
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to... 
Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You kno... 
I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anythi... 
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our wo... 
The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenag... 
If you have had the same dishwasher for 10 years or more, don't bother repairing it. The average... 
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi... 
I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it ... 
I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it i... 
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret. 
I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all... 
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I wa... 
I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or ... 
I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. Non... 
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. I... 
I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I wil... 
I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the re... 
The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the supp... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... 
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
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With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. 
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr... 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 