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 remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.
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Repetition every day. That's something the great ones do is never get complacent.
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The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
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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.
