Iain Banks Quotes
She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. 'Is this as important as I think it is?''Almost certainly much more so.''Oh,' she said, 'fuck.'
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
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There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.
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Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
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Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
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She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. 'Is this as important as I think it is?''Almost certainly much more so.''Oh,' she said, 'fuck.'
