Russell Banks Quotes
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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When I hear from fans that they not only like the music but they're also very touched by the lyrics, or they also learned about a specific cause because of me, that's really rewarding.
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I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.
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What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
