John Banville Quotes
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
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Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia.
