Banks Quotes
I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.
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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
