John Banville Quotes

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

John Cusack

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It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Robert Motherwell

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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

Tommy Lee

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America is an unusually religious nation.

Rodney Stark

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I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Miranda Lambert

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For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.

Craig Kelly

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I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

Britt Daniel

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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

Wyclef Jean

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As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.

Pramila Jayapal

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I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

Phil Collins

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