Eric Bana Quotes

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

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• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

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• Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

  

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• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

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• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

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• You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

  

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• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

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• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

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• I make work not to give answers but to question things.

  

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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

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• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

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• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

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• It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

  

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• I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.

  

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• My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

  

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• I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

  

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• I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

  

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• I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

  

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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
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• Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple...she looked at me and she says, 'Baby...you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly.'

  

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• I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

  

  Eric Bana
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