Russell Banks Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
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Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.
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One hates a person for the same reason one loves him
