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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for.
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A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.
