John Kendrick Bangs Quotes
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
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When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.
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I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.
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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
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To-day, whatever may annoy,The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.
