Iain Banks Quotes

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Jim Morrison

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Being in New Mexico was such a great experience for me, and I hope to get back there one day for some more films or TV.

Joanna Going

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I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Joe Frazier

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I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.

Andrew Shaffer

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I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

John Hurt

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I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

Robert M. Gates

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I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything that occurs visually comes out of the subject matter you are dealing with so that I find it difficult to treat the visual element as a separate entity.

Simon McBurney

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I don't have a great face for camera.

Tracy Letts

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You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the way it is in college.

Rob Brown

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A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.

Roberto Firmino

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Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Michel Faber

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