Russell Banks Quotes
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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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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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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He told me to keep working hard. That was pretty special.
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It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
