John Banville Quotes
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.
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You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
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Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
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I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.
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What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.
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I like to hide in Ireland, but I like to think of myself as an internal exile.
