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John Banville Quotes

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Beautiful Own Books Objects

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Fear Science Environmental Debate

Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family.

Family Friends And Family Friends Go

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

Heart Money Me Hands Find Burn

I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.

Years Working He Many Spent Lauren

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Michael Patrick Jann

Business Knowledge School Connections

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'

Saying You I Can Know Knowing See

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Training Memory Party Human Just

Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup.

Food World American Everyone Still

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Men Want Privilege Nothing Little

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

Time Believe Back Tragedy Will Next

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Life Women Live Woman Little Girls

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Action Bad New Up Film Come

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