Iain Banks Quotes
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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It takes three to make a child.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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I feel like some of the best roles that I've gotten to play I could've never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it's hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I've had I could've never anticipated or expected.
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When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
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It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.
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I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
