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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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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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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There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
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I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.
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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
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I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.
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My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.
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To-day, whatever may annoy,The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.
