Russell Banks Quotes
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
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Who saves his country violates no law.
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Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.
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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
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Putting beauty in your life can be an amazing therapy. I love harmonies and a good melody.
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Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye…it was very special.
