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John Burnside Quotes

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Myself Day Book Talking Next

I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

Good Opportunity Woman Me Saying

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

Work Best People College Ambition

Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.

Music Fun Me Road You Down

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Believe Think Kind Human Confusion

You have to be ambitious in life.

Life You Ambitious

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

Me Team Help I Can Talk More

I worked as a liaison with some high-level government officials.

Government Some Officials High-Level

Jose Aldo, he's a stud, and I would be honored to be in there to throw down with him.

Down Him Honored Stud Would Throw

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

World Believe I Believe Way Movement

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

Sebastian Thrun

Science Mathematics Creative Me Arts

I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.

House Digital Old Years None Around

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

Power Time Words Me Place Page

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