John Banville Quotes

Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• 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
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Proud

• 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
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• 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
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
  • Special

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Band

• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

  

  Keith Barry
  • People
  • Magic
  • Psychology

• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

  

  Dave Holland
  • People
  • Dance
  • Professional

• Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.

  

  John Banville
  • People
  • Desire