Elizabeth Banks Quotes
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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The world is always terrible.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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There he heard a Lady talking,To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,-'Tis the lady Jingly Jones!On that little heap of stonesSits the Lady Jingly Jones!
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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
