Russell Banks Quotes
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
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I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.
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To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.
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America isn’t afraid to compete.
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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
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It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
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I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I myself interact with technology. I can see the ways in which that addiction and compulsion starts to settle in on them, and it's much more unnerving to see it in them than it is to experience it myself.
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
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They're making so few movies that you really just have to make it. It's going to be the only way you end up getting work. I don't believe anyone's going to really go out on a limb and just throw millions of dollars on someone that's not been proven. They're going to have to show somebody something at some point.
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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
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I remembered Albany … as just another down-on-its-luck small American city that had sacrificed its vitality to a whirring ring of homogenous suburbs.
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Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.
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Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
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No man can think about everything; we can only be ready for everything
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We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
