John Burnside Quotes

I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.

Jenny Mollen

GirlChildrenPeopleNeverActKids

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

John McTiernan

IdeasFindHardProvocativeWorks

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

Steve Blank

JobThinkYouSalesCEODid

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

Ruth Rendell

MyselfWritingSmallSpeakStory

I've been pretty clear about saying that I think that the No. 1 threat to our national security is our debt. And we've got to get our arms around that and head it in another - head it in the right direction - that we have to pay our fair share of this.

Michael Mullen

SayingDirectionThinkSecurityDebt

I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.

Luis Fonsi

GoodTimeIdeasStartDirectionGo

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

FutureRiskFragileEconomicGlobal

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

Derek Cianfrance

MyselfDoingTryingCoachThings

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

David Zucker

BusinessTogetherThoughtCreateNew

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

Bradford Dillman

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My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

Ashwin Sanghi

WifeI AmForgetSheThingsAm

I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when I write my next song.

Astrid S

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