Russell Banks Quotes
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 'Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There'.
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I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
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What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.
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Russell Barkley similarly describes the primary problem in ADD as a deficit in the motivation system, which makes it impossible to stay on task for any length of time unless there is constant feedback, constant reward.
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Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
