John Banville Quotes

Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.

John Banville

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• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Men
  • Home
  • War

• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Shoe
  • Takes

• In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Victory
  • Performance
  • Debate

• 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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • American
  • First
  • India

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• 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.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • Love
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Business
  • Pride
  • Organization

• 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.

  

  Warren G
  • School
  • Kids
  • Care

• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Consequence

• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Father
  • Always
  • Rich

• I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Father

• When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• 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.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you." "You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro." "Ditto. And don't kiss me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hurt
  • Kiss
  • Kill

• While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine - for what creature could ever have imagined us?

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Survive
  • Illness
  • Species

• There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

  

  William Hague
  • Growth
  • Hard
  • Strategy

• Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.

  

  John Banville