John Banville Quotes
When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.John Banville
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White -
I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
Natalie Dormer -
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
Laura Bush -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I don't care about revenues.
Jack Ma -
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
Adam Peaty
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld -
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
Macaulay Culkin -
Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
Madhur Mittal -
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
Ram Kapoor
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga -
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
Laila Ali -
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
Ed Pastor -
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
Maeve Binchy -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward -
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Dale Dougherty
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
Quincy Jones -
I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.
Kellan Lutz -
Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!
Khoudia Diop -
As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by strong encryption, and therefore all of our lives - including the lives of criminals and terrorists and spies - will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to court-ordered process. And that, I think, to a democracy should be very, very concerning.
James Comey -
I found myself right in the middle of an absolute hotbed of Nazi intrigue. All the Jewish shops had 'Jude' daubed over the windows, and the Jews themselves were attacked.
Douglas Slocombe -
When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.
John Banville