Iain Banks Quotes
'Well,' he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. 'Here we are again.'
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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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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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.
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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
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'Well,' he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. 'Here we are again.'
