Russell Banks Quotes
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
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Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.
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I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.
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It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
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I always find something to keep me busy.
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Kids are so shrewd.
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Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
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Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.
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It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.
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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
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I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
