John Banville Quotes
When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Fluency is smooth, rapid, effortless use of language.
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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
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When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
