John Banville Quotes
I'm a little older now and I think I've lightened up a bit as I'm getting older.
John Banville
Quotes to Explore
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
Federica Mogherini
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
Raf Simons
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Hans Rosling
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
Yann Tiersen
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
Babyface
