Iain Banks Quotes
'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
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However, you will reincarnate whether or not you believe that you will. It is much easier if your theories fit reality, but if they do not, then you do not change reality one iota.
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I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.
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It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that was an incredible feeling. But there's something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.
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Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
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'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
