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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The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won't hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.
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Getting the shuttle back up there is just going to bring the space station back to its full potential.
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
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What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
