Russell Banks Quotes
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
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Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.
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Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Nobody does anything for one reason.
