John Banville Quotes
We all yearn in our hearts to be Larkin's 'shit in the shuttered chateau', but few of us achieve that grand apotheosis.John Banville
Quotes to Explore
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson -
I love recording music.
J. J. Abrams -
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier -
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
Zooey Deschanel -
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
Tabitha Soren -
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
Rachael Ray
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
M. J. Rose -
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
Idris Elba -
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Natalie Dormer -
What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
Pablo Sandoval -
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
Tammin Sursok
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
Carly Fiorina -
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack Obama -
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
Ori Gersht -
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.
Jack Nance -
John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.
Matt Taibbi
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The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
Mary-Louise Parker -
Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.
Scott Dixon -
No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.
Walter Willett -
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
John Dryden -
We all yearn in our hearts to be Larkin's 'shit in the shuttered chateau', but few of us achieve that grand apotheosis.
John Banville