Russell Banks Quotes
One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The answer is... yes. Of course, it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous.
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Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
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I grew up around guitar players.
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It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.
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If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.
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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.
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We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
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Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
