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Iain Banks Quotes

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fun Effort Action Find Write Most

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Time Myself Story Write First Give

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Art Believe Underdog Help Trying

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

Best Lie Process Violence You Human

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

Work Culture People World Chance

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.

Growth Business Small Understand

When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

Good Tea Good Things Voice Media

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

Roscoe Conkling

New York Win Rise Party Country New

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.

Power Plant Enjoy Easy Labor Forget

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

Age Class Studying Ballet

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

Guitar Rock Florida Playing Central

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Christopher Durang

Father Mother Think Thought Know

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

Me Picture Someone You Go Want

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