Russell Banks Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
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I was never really good in school.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
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It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
