John Banville Quotes
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
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Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?
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Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
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Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food...
