Iain Banks Quotes

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

Iain Banks

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

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• There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

  

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• I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

  

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

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• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

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• Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

  

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

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• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

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• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  

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• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

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• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

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• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

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• To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

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• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  

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• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

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• All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

  

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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

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• In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

  

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• Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

  

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• A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.

  

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• One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

  

  Iain Banks
  • God
  • Mind
  • American