Iain Banks Quotes
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.
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Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
