Melissa Bank Quotes
You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
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When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
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'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.
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One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."
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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
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You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
