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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: Almost Banal Made Obvious Readers Say

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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

~Alan Dean Foster

Topics: About Banal Before Carefully Danger Dawn Evil Lies Lot People Real Some Speak Structured Today Well Where Written

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If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: About Back Banal Could Day Did Falling Falling In Love Forgotten Go Looking Love Relive See Things Time Weep Were You

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The thing that is most important is having people who are involved and engaged with the kids and also are not stressed and can be involved with them. And that's actually not boring and banal. That actually takes a lot of work to make that happen, and it's not something that our society does very well at all.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Actually Also Banal Boring Does Engaged Happen Having Important Involved Kids Lot Make Most Our People Society Something Stressed Takes Them Thing Very Well Who Work

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Author Banal Believe Differently Even Facts Know Life Most Read Really

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I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

~Anne-Marie Duff

Topics: Agent Banal Certain Drama Film Full Hole Instance Intelligent Offensive Pain Parts Right Sake Take Television Think Violence Writing I Think

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To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

~Annette Funicello

Topics: Banal Decade Marked Predictable Some Were

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'Hymn for the Weekend' mixes cultural and religious practices, commodifying them into a banal but beautiful message of imagined solidarity.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Banal Beautiful Cultural Imagined Message Practices Religious Solidarity Them Weekend

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The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Actually Banal Brilliant Explain Fact Fathom Just Makes Mean Means Might Mortals Necessarily No Sense Ordinary Sense Something Understandable You

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To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

~Christina Ricci

Topics: Banal Because Happiness How Interesting Known Life Play Someone Sort Who

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