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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But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
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And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.
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You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.
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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.
