Melissa Bank Quotes

I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

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• There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • California
  • Building

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• I like to make people think a little bit.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Think
  • Little

• Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Poetry
  • Jazz
  • Slave

• I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Myself

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Sex
  • Gay

• By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Blessed

• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fall
  • Weight
  • Sitting

• I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Opportunity

• Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Run

• We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

• When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Risk

• I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • She
  • Mother
  • Cooking

• Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Blood

• A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Life
  • Man
  • Possess

• But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Scientists
  • Stick
  • Poke

• I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Rule
  • Street
  • Useful