Banks Quotes
Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.
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I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
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Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
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I would love to appear in 'Scandal,' something like that, or 'Grey's Anatomy' because I think they're incredible.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
