Iain Banks Quotes
'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
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Geraldine: We must tell the truth!Prentice: That's a thoroughly defeatist attitude.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.
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I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
