A Quote by John Burnside

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

John Burnside

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John Burnside
Scottish - Writer
Born: March 19, 1955

If you're going to be pigeon-holed as anything as a woman, it's good to be pigeon-holed as someone with an acid tongue who gets things done.

Helen Baxendale

We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

John Noble

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

Matthew Shipp

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

Yasmin Paige

You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.

Morris Chestnut

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

Cliff Chiang

I don't like being pigeon-holed.

Chuka Umunna

I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.

A. J. Cook

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

Maggie Smith

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

Jonathan Frakes

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Colin Quinn

I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a firefighter.

Sol Campbell

I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.

Lydia Polgreen

I just want to do as many different genres as I can. I think that's part of it... to not get pigeon-holed because if one of them breaks out and becomes a big hit then typically people want to keep putting you in that kind of role.

Patrick Wilson

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

Justin Hartley

At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that are on my album will be loved by the pop listeners and the R&B songs will be loved by the R&B people. I think that each song has a broad enough sound that I won't be pigeon holed. At the same time I think it is appealing to many different audiences.

Chrisette Michele

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