John Banville Quotes

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A nutritionist is expensive, but it's money well spent.

Max Holloway

MoneyExpensiveWellSpent

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

GrowthLiveAgeScienceRespect

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

Miguel

CultureDaySoulCreditHip-Hop

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

Jayne Anne Phillips

MeWritingBuildInsideUpThings

I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.

Jason Priestley

AlwaysLevelGrantFailedCoolness

I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

Dita Von Teese

BeautyHealthEatingBelieveReally

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

Dennis C. Blair

ValueOrganizationUnderstandingHigh

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

David Zayas

LoveCharacterBlessingChoicesYou

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.

Christina Tosi

FunnyLoveHomeHistoryPictures

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

Corey Taylor

MusicStoneWillAlwaysSourHere

My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'

Ciara Renee

ManSongAlwaysAwayGotAlmost

Trump's divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won't play well with the general public, either.

Anthony Scaramucci

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