John Banville Quotes
Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.
John Banville
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
Karen Bender
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
Laura Dern
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Viggo Mortensen
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton
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I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.
Donald Hall
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What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.
Joel Fuhrman
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'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
Young Thug
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Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.
John Banville