Banks Quotes
It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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To survive is to win.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I like women who have an opinion one way or the other or who have a great sense of humor and a great sense of adventure. I can be friends with women who are not like that, but I don't have that hard emotional connection.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.
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At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.