Melissa Bank Quotes
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
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Be the chief but never the lord.
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Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
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Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!
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It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.
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I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
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I have songs that sound like this and songs that sound like that. I think it's just my vocal that keeps it all together.
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.