Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I don't die in anything!
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I have rules for everything.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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Time will heal everything.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
