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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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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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 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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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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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.
