Russell Banks Quotes

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

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• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Want
  • Gang

• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Stop

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Whom

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak

• The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Up
  • May
  • Past

• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Game
  • Law
  • Winning

• I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Bills

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Peace
  • Become
  • Smoke

• Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Men
  • Me
  • Write

• We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Future
  • Energy

• It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

  

  George Andrew Olah
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Period

• I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

  

  Carole King
  • Inspiration
  • Perspiration

• For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Responsibility
  • Certain
  • Consequence

• My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Knows
  • Stories
  • Audience

• I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Together
  • Hands
  • Posture

• I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Forever
  • Stories
  • Finite

• Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Words
  • Way
  • Humor

• But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Stories
  • Hands
  • Hunts