Iain Banks Quotes
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!Iain Banks
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril -
I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
Jack Nicklaus -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg -
I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
Wayne Dyer -
I keep in touch with what's real.
Sam Claflin
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell -
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell -
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp -
I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
Calvin Johnson -
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang -
Life is like an analogy.
Aaron Allston -
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
Famke Janssen -
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
Gary Sheffield -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
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Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Alvar Aalto -
I need my time to be lonely.
Jose Mourinho -
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
Oprah Winfrey -
Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?
Pablo Francisco -
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
Iain Banks