Russell Banks Quotes

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Great
  • She
  • Business

• My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • High

• We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Business
  • Model

• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Grandchildren

• As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

  

  David Bergen

• You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

  

  Amaury Nolasco
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Grandma

• There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Up
  • Help
  • Fear

• I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Dumb

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• I think I've learned a lot just from being in the industry in general, and I never really thought about what to put in my hair to get a perfect beach wave until I started modeling. People will use certain products on me, and I learn that way.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Hair

• I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Friends
  • Scenes
  • Cashew

• He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called 'It', and cats – as well as women – always knew when he came into the room.

  

  Elinor Glyn
  • Women
  • Strong

• And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

  

  Russell Banks
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want