Russell Banks Quotes
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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I have fun just about everywhere I go.
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To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
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Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.
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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
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I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!
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Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
