John Banville Quotes
There is something slightly sinister about Prague, just as there is about Lyon and Turin.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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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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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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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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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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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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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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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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We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
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Cities don’t make people poor; they attract poor people.
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There is something slightly sinister about Prague, just as there is about Lyon and Turin.
