John Banville Quotes
After all, who knows what the distant past was like? About Kepler and Copernicus, people often say, You captured the period so well! I always want to ask, How do you know? You weren't there either.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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Today's age of politicized and intolerant Christianism seems to me to be one of those moments when Christianity has estranged itself most thoroughly from the priorities and spirit of its founder. But this will pass. Christianity will survive Christianism. Some true followers of Jesus will recover their faith from Caesar's grip at some point.
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I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions.
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The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
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After all, who knows what the distant past was like? About Kepler and Copernicus, people often say, You captured the period so well! I always want to ask, How do you know? You weren't there either.
