Melissa Bank Quotes
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
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I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
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Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.
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You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
