Iain Banks Quotes
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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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.
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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.
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
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Radio is for driving.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
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I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Two years ago, China tested an anti-satellite weapon that actually caused quite a bit of controversy and one of the controversies is that by blowing up a satellite, you are creating more space debris which is a hazard to satellites and spacecraft in lower Earth orbit and if they had been a partner, you'd have to do an experiment, and if they had been a partner in the international space station, would they have really done that test? They would have really thought twice about creating that tension between the countries and potentially endangering a project that they were a part of.
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My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.
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What they had talked themselves into, they could be silent out of.
