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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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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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 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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I am a man in a hurry.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
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In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
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The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
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My parents are like religious atheists.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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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.
