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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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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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.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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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.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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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.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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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.
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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.'
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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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.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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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.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat.
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My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
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Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.
