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"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them."
"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."
"I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls."
"I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play."
Explore more quotes by John Burns
"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."
"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."
"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State."
"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."
"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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