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John Banville Quotes

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Losing Feel Lost Things

When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can't be all about them. Everybody doesn't want to just look like the celebrity, because they can't. They just want one element of that style.

Jessica Simpson

Great Style Job People Think Look

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

Work Look Now Way More Out

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

Work You Artist Way Finish Audience

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

Learning Mistakes Words Process Same

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Never Give Up Face Facts Never Up

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

Vision Never Everything Just Very

Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.

Life Best Easy Never Things Cubs

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

Money People World Some People Star

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

History Time World My Time Percent

We want the media to enjoy its right of freedom.

Freedom Media Enjoy Want Right

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Love Money Happy Me Game Better

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Good Confidence Think Privilege Only

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