Iain Banks Quotes
He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.Iain Banks
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
Ted Levine -
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Felicity Kendal -
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
Aaron Neville -
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Larry Ellison -
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette -
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
Tammin Sursok -
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
Barry Levinson -
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
Brown Campbell -
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks -
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
Harlan Coben -
It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony -
I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
Yi So-Yeon -
People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
Zac Posen
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Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that having religious observance in the home is as important as providing food, clothing and shelter.
Quentin L. Cook -
Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.
Esther Hicks -
I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
Louise Erdrich -
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
L. Tom Perry -
He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
Iain Banks