Iain Banks Quotes
He looked up from it at the stars again, and the view was warped and distorted by something in his eyes, which at first he thought was rain.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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He looked up from it at the stars again, and the view was warped and distorted by something in his eyes, which at first he thought was rain.
