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John Banville Quotes

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Tragic Comic Equally

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

Health Men American Enough Bad More

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

Me Ambition Done Knowing Own Left

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

American America Silent Actor France

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

Think You Wrong Place Film Vibe

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

Family Time Basketball Long Centered

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Money Nothing Population Other

I wash it a couple times a week, but pretty much every night, I put in some leave-in conditioner. I want to say it's like a Moroccan-type, argan oil conditioner of some sort. I don't know; I just use it. I don't really know the details on it.

Night Details Week Know Say Want

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

Father School First Because French

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Reading Busy Never Outside Fairy Up

I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.

Arnaud Desplechin

Humble Think American Powerful Pure

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Family Hope Society Big Big Family

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

William Throsby Bridges

Great Evil Guilt Sin Blood Nothing

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