John Burnside Quotes

For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've never finished anything by Dickens.

Jim Crace

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We are convinced of the huge potential that still lies ahead and particularly in 'The Economist''s ability to seize the many development opportunities linked to the digitisation of the media industry.

John Elkann

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My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now!

Michael Chiklis

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No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.

Steve Brown

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I'm a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do it because I love it. The passion is unbelievable in every race I do. I have the ambition to change things outside the pool, too.

Sophie Pascoe

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I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Lisa Marie Presley

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Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Dick Cavett

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You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.

Peggy Johnson

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I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

Sherri Shepherd

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America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Richard Lamm

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I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

Marianne Faithfull

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We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

Gustav Krupp

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