Iain Banks Quotes
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
Parminder Nagra
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
Yoko Ono
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
Larry Bishop
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
Patricia Millett
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The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. 15
Ze Frank
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What you do daily determines what you become permanently
Mike Murdock
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Grenville
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
George Herbert Mead
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks
