John Banville Quotes
I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I'm not a babysitter.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
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The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
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Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
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I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.
