John Banville Quotes
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Acting is in your soul.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
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What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.
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There's no reason my films can't work as hard as VR does to hook an audience and never let them go, so I think that that it turns the volume up a little bit on storytelling. The same way when I was doing commercials and then I went and shot 'Go,' and 'Go' has a level of pace that is unlike any of my other movies.
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Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
