Iain Banks Quotes
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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The European way is also the United Nations' way. And we believe in the U.N. because we believe in the same principles, in the same values, and our communities are built upon the same fundamental ideals.
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Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
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Whoever likes football always likes to see the best player on the pitch.
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Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?
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A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
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I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
