Russell Banks Quotes
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.
