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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.
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Imagination is the other end of Reality.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
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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.
