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.Iain Banks
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
Larry Holmes -
When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
J. B. Smoove -
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
I see myself as a story teller.
E. L. James -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
Hal Sparks
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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.
Gao Xingjian -
We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger -
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Bear Grylls -
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
Dani Shapiro -
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
Kate Walsh
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen -
'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.
Daniel Kaluuya -
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
Jeff Bridges -
When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
Dara Khosrowshahi -
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.
Iain Banks