Iain Banks Quotes
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
Ram Dass -
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
Vidal Sassoon -
It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
Frances Conroy -
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Radio is for driving.
Ira Glass -
I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
Vince Cable
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
Gary Jennings -
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
Samantha Fox -
I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
Cameron Diaz -
I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
Camilla Lackberg
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius -
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
Ralph Steadman -
I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.
Naeem Khan -
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Patricia Highsmith -
We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.
Ibrahim Hooper
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Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
John Mayall -
When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy.
Cobi Jones -
What they had talked themselves into, they could be silent out of.
Iain Banks