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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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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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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Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
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But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.
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A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
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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.
