John Banville Quotes
If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?
John Banville
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
Samuel Larsen
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
Carlos Alazraqui
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Barbara Cooney
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
Paget Brewster
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
Victoria Pendleton
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
Tara Lipinski
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
Garry Shandling
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali
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Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
Brian Selznick
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I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.
Doug Harvey
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I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.
Janet Jackson
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As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
Neale Donald Walsch
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For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
John Donne
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If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?
John Banville
