Iain Banks Quotes
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Iain Banks
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
Quincy Jones
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
Rachelle Lefevre
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
M. Stanton Evans
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
Larry Hagman
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I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.
Donald Johanson
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
Luchino Visconti
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It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.
Charles Lindbergh
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I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
Piper Perabo
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'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.
Alex Wolff
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'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Iain Banks
