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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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
Ice Cube
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
George Bernard Shaw
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi
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'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was, 'This is a career record.' I was like, 'Why do you think that?' I think the stars aligned.
Thomas Rhett
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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Patrick McGoohan
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If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?
John Banville
