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Iain Banks Quotes

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

Topics

Technology Society Start You Matter

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

Jessica Chastain

People Acting Reason Connecting Like

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

John Connolly

Great People Find Knowing Degree Up

Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.

Max von Essen

Time Competition World Wish Acting

Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.

Angela Lansbury

Best Me Think Thought End Judge

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

Andy Hertzfeld

Apple Started Working Months After

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Amy Tan

Mother Childhood Know She Difficult

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

Rod Stewart

Great Voice Done She Right Singer

I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.

Ronaldo

Day Football World Think Help Dream

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

Dinah Manoff

Work Good Time Job People Me

There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.

Clemantine Wamariya

Great People Potential Great Things

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Lindsay Lohan

Enemy Know My Own Worst Own

Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Children Culture I Am Red Blue