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John Burnside Quotes

A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Believe Someone Mad Person See Who

I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.

Music People Listening Understanding

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

Business Music Curious My Own Never

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

Love Fun Me Drama Reason Costume

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Find Kind Tension Productive Very

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

Live Path Best Peace Honor Nothing

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Music Art People You Know Hollywood

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

Martina McBride

Music Memories Learn Country Listen

Unrequited love's a bore.

Love Bore Unrequited

I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

I Am Think Person I Think Optimistic

I was never interested in golf until someone brought up the Get Golf Ready program to me.

Me Golf Someone Ready Never Up

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

Life Prison Understand Class Out

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Born Conservative Birth Gone Idea

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