Iain Banks Quotes
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.
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The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.
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Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
