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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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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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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I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.
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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
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One hates a person for the same reason one loves him
