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John Burnside Quotes

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: March 19, 1955

Topics

Animals True Wild Real Encounter

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.

Country New Product Force Colonies

I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

Character Best Building Small You

I go into movies I hate, and that movie will make $500 million.

Robert Ben Garant

Hate Go Movies Will Million Movie

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

Yourself People Feel You Look Know

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

Work Commitment Job I Am Me Proud

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

Eye Would Like Public Public Eye

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Ludwig Bemelmans

Life Good Father Live Start You

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

Organization Hire Religious Should

No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.

Life Evil Control Reality Choose

There's been a bit of confusion about Showscan. The basic problem was, it was film and it was 70 mm and it was a lot of it, so the negative cost was very high, the print costs were very high, and it also required conversion of the projectors and theaters and a lot of costs. I just couldn't get any traction in the theatrical movie industry to do it.

Douglas Trumbull

Negative Problem Confusion High Cost

There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.

Clemantine Wamariya

Great People Potential Great Things

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Man Mind Forest Grass Never Who

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