Russell Banks Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
Ban Ki-moon
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I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
Damien Rice
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
J. D. Salinger
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I love the shock factors and that Michelle is just OK with every aspect of herself, especially the sexual side.
Alyson Hannigan
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I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
Matt Lauer
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I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
Eileen Pollack
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You don't want to be a Kardashian.
Bryan Cranston
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Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
Bridget Kelly
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I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.
Don Cheadle
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Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.
Artur Davis
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If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
Luke Evans
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When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.
Bruce Beresford
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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
Corneille Ewango
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I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
Daniel Wu
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I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.
Aerin Lauder
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us hollerO' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
James Russell Lowell
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And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.
Fatima bint Muhammad
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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
Alan Cumming
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I am not a ventriloquist.
Russell Banks