Melissa Bank Quotes
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
Quotes to Explore
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.
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Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super stylish. At the Cesars, she was wearing this beautiful red silk dress. I don't know whose it was.
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I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.
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Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
