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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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 love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
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People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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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.
