"If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!"

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Source : Iain M. Banks (2008). “Against A Dark Background”, p.199, Hachette UK

Iain Banks

“Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.”
“It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.”
“The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.”
“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
“There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.”

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“You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.”
“Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.”

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