Leslie Banks Quotes
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
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I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
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That has always been it for me: family first.
