Iain Banks Quotes
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.Iain Banks
Quotes to Explore
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
Dan Fogelman -
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Damon Galgut -
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram -
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis -
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian -
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
Zhang Zhidong
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
Ildar Abdrazakov -
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Pat Summitt -
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong -
The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K. D. Lang -
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A. -
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde -
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
Ornette Coleman -
I think I’ve always thought of culture as DNA. I don’t know a lot about genetics, but I understand some of it and I think that what you really want are the genes that are positive to hyper-express themselves in culture.
Marissa Mayer -
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol -
My music's gonna evolve as I get older.
Justin Scott -
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks