John Banville Quotes
Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
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Holy Week is a time to think about risk, because that’s what this whole Passion narrative represents.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.
