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John Banville Quotes

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Life Time I Am Me Writing Know

This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.

Better Getting Better Economy Reason

It's not so much that I don't like traveling, it's just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.

Love Home Time Friends Being Just

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

People Destiny Suffer Haiti

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

Life Imagination Space Me Someone

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.

Music Time You Real Boundaries Take

It's never been about making money.

Money Making Money Never Been Making

I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.

Good Poetry College Me Sweet Book

The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.

Energy Financial Generation Oil More

I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.

Good Vibes Up Cleveland Here Got

Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.

Practice Fashion Game Tough Negative

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Family Responsibility People World

Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.

Great Beginning You Movies Way Just

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