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.
Quotes to Explore
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I love recording music.
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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.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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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.
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century.
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At the beginning, my character Cameron is really family-oriented.
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It's all too easy to forget that cultural fit is a two-way street. Yes, the candidate needs to gel well with your company's vibe and mission. But, you also need to fit in with her desires, goals, and long-term career vision. It's not a one-sided relationship.
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We all yearn in our hearts to be Larkin's 'shit in the shuttered chateau', but few of us achieve that grand apotheosis.
