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 -
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 -
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
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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.
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 -
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
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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.
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 -
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
Aaron Stanford -
To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.
Donald Faison
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Behold the hippopotamus!We laugh at how he looks to us,And yet in moments dank and grim,I wonder how we look to him.
Ogden Nash -
I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?
Kris Carr -
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
John Leguizamo -
We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.
Chuck Pagano -
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