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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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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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 travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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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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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
