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.
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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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On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
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I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.
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You really could call the new TVR Cerbera heavy metal were it not fashioned from plastic. The best way to experience this car is to be about seven miles away. As it comes toward you, it's like being in a horror movie. The monster is getting closer. The Thing. The Blob. Terror has no shape. But God, what a noise.
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Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.
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Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
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I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food...
