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.John Banville
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell -
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Dan Savage -
If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
Edgar Wright -
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.
Laura Wade
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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.
Gary Dourdan -
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.
Parker Posey -
If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones
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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.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand -
I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
Malik Jackson -
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.
Abby Wambach -
Let me tell you that I love the United States.
Vicente Fox -
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
Pat Paulsen
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
Macaulay Culkin -
Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.
Mark Cuban -
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
Patricia Millett -
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.
John Banville