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John Banville Quotes

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Way Big Prize Books Should Popular

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

Teacher Money Training Care Golf

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

Great Together Me I Can Skills Just

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

Robert Grosseteste

Confidence Best Present Doing You

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Growth Money Government Value People

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Time Go Will Way Talk Scene

As an actor, a role can be a great excuse not to be in shape. I mean, you wouldn't want to see the Dude with a six-pack, so you eat that Haagen-Dazs. My weight goes up and down.

Great You Down Want Actor Mean

As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Amazing Sweet You Adapt Now Orange

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

Freedom Woman Construction Think You

Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.

Rock Roll Get Only Wanted Thing

Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

Chance Listen Anybody Warren Elected

At the end of the day, I think people are starting to realize that if you say you stand for equality, it has to be equality across the board. It can't just be equality for people who look like me, are my gender, think or love like me. It has to be equality for everybody.

Jason Winston George

Love Day Equality People Me Think

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Love Beautiful Experience Death You

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