John Banville Quotes
I know that this is a cliché by now and I suppose that Prague people are sick and tired of hearing Prague referred to as ‘Magic Prague’, but, you know, I may complain about the tourists, but I am a tourist after all. I'd rather not be, but I am.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
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You don't treat cancer - you fight it.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.
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I know that this is a cliché by now and I suppose that Prague people are sick and tired of hearing Prague referred to as ‘Magic Prague’, but, you know, I may complain about the tourists, but I am a tourist after all. I'd rather not be, but I am.
