John Banville Quotes

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 8, 1945

Topics

LearningHopeDeathDoingYouDuty

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

Andrew Davies

ProblemEverythingWonderfulFunction

To compare players at different stages in their career shouldn't happen.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

CareerHappenPlayersDifferent

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

Judy Greer

WomenMenInterestingEasyWayMore

It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods.

Devon Bostick

FunHaving FunYouUpShootingLike

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

Douglas Rushkoff

SearchGoogleNextBoxMayExposure

I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

Bob Weinstein

MeWantImageGive MeGiveUphold

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Bryant H. McGill

LoveBeautyGoodnessSeek

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Athol Fugard

FamilyAloneDayWritingThinkPlan

I want to do more films because if you do a lot of films, you become a better actor.

Allu Arjun

BetterYouWantActorBecomeMore

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

Shia LaBeouf

LivePeopleDoingOpinionsKnow

Belichick's actually great. I wouldn't mind being the New England Patriots. They seem to win a lot. Four-game suspension here and there doesn't hurt nobody.

Seth Rollins

GreatMindWinHurtNobodyNew

Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.

Ricardo Rossello

Puerto RicoNeverTwoWithinBeen

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