Russell Banks Quotes
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I'm thankful for that.
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It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
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A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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I hope it never becomes normal to feel scrutinized.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.
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A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.
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Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
