John Banville Quotes
Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.
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I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
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So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the good teachers will openly address it specifically as only imagination. Both of my teachers were very good at that.
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These are songs that we were working on around the time of recording Futures, but that just didn't seem to fit on the record.
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Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.
