John Banville Quotes
Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
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This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.
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In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
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People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
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Every day is a blessing in WWE, and I keep reminding myself of that. That's my character.
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To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.
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When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.
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I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.
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I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
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What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
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Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
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Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
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Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Every industry, as it comes to a certain level of maturity, there is consolidation. In that consolidation, some fall, but the men will always be there. It is the boys that get sloughed, I would say.
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
