Paul Banks Quotes
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.
Quotes to Explore
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
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I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.
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I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
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I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.
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In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.
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I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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The Court's objection to cameras may be much more a product of history and process than an unwillingness to be placed in the public spotlight.
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The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
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...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.
