Jillian Rose Banks Quotes
I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
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My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.
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I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.
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Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
