Iain Banks Quotes
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I got through college.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
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The gadding vine.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.
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I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
