Iain Banks Quotes
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
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There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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We now come to the question of applying the observational tests to earlier theories. These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. It now turns out that... all such theories are in conflict with observational requirements.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
