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 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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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
