Russell Banks Quotes
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
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The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.
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I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
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You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.
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To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.
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I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
