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John Burnside Quotes

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Perfect Reader Another

Hillary Clinton needs the single ladies' vote. I call them 'The Beyonce Voters' - the single ladies.

Vote Single Call Needs Them Voters

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

People Ownership Television Tax Why

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

Mistakes Accidents Head Days Wounds

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Darkness Nice Thug Guy Because Just

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

Me Thoughts World Racing Down Sit

You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

Steven Van Zandt

History People Team You Lose Always

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

Good Criticism Damaged Theater Gets

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Fire Back Enemy Go Said Grandfather

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

Beautiful Key Process Plan Consensus

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Heart Find Will Whatever Own Us

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

Want Something Leaders Anyone

I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

Music Time Myself Balance Energy

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