John Banville Quotes
Come, Benjamin, put your arm around me and we shall be comfortably one, mon semblable-mon frère!
Quotes to Explore
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.
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Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
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You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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Come, Benjamin, put your arm around me and we shall be comfortably one, mon semblable-mon frère!
