Ernie Banks Quotes

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

Ernie Banks

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• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

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• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

  

  Laura Fraser
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• There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

  

  Wayne Newton
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• I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.

  

  Nate Parker
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• I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

  

  Harold Budd
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• People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

  

  Vanessa Mae
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• I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

  

  Dean Kamen
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• If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

  

  Jameela Jamil
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• I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

  

  David Henrie
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• There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

  

  Duane Michals
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• I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I wanted to jump onto the tuna boat, I wouldn't because I'm not getting high-class babes that I should get at this level of my career. And I always know the ugly ones are serious and that the good-looking ones are goofing on me.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
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• I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

  

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• The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine. I was supposed to do his TV special, and I didn't turn up. Consequently, I was blacklisted by NBC for a long time. I damaged my career, and almost ruined my whole life.

  

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• 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

  

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• When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

  

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• I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

  

  Anthony Joshua
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• My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Time
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• I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Career
  • Feeling
  • Retired