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.
Iain Banks
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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.
Harold Ramis
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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.
Gavin O'Connor
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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?
Madeleine M. Kunin
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
Jack Kevorkian
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
Karolina Kurkova
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker
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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.
Garth Brooks
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
Ian Mckellen
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
Adam Brody
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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
Charli XCX
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I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
James Norton
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A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention.
Jennifer Morrison
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Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.
Anthony Burgess
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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.
Iain Banks