Ashok K. Banker Quotes

Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

Ashok K. Banker

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• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Marriage
  • Too Much
  • Much

• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Values

• Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Me
  • Beach

• When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

  

  Fat Joe
  • Why
  • Business
  • Hair

• I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Artist
  • Get
  • Comfort Zone

• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Father
  • Song
  • Nice

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Woman

• The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • First
  • Loved

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Soldiers

• I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • World
  • Writing

• I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway - propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Text

• My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Parents

• No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Life
  • Children
  • Fall

• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.

  

  Paz Vega

• Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

  

  Ashok K. Banker
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Equals