John Banville Quotes
There is something slightly sinister about Prague, just as there is about Lyon and Turin.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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I'm very much a family person.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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Wearisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
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My favorite color is light pink. I also like baby blue because it brings out my eyes.
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Hark, hark! the larkOn windswept barkFreezes against a sky of lead!Now see him stop,Take one small hop,And suddenly keel over dead!
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The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.
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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
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No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.
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God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
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There is something slightly sinister about Prague, just as there is about Lyon and Turin.
