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John Burnside Quotes

I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mad Say Mental Illness Hospital Just

I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.

People World Think Know Sometimes

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Alone Weather Economic Billion

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

Life Live Identity Me My Life Still

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

John William McCormack

Time Men Job Smart Doing Help

My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'

Faith Hope Day Feel You Find

We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Eye Terrorism Say Need Keep Middle

It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.

Gift Gay Play Way Human Role

Designing and creating dance clothes has taken my love for dancewear to a whole other level, melding the creative process with my daily fashion and allowing me to bring my most dreamed-about ballet styles to life.

Mary Helen Bowers

Life Love Daily Dance Creative Me

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Free Think Speech Privilege Should

This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.

World Face Handsome Out Hanging Lot

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

Astrid Lindgren

Love Children Great People Way Seem

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Best Be Different Doing You Will

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