Elizabeth Banks Quotes
Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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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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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.
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My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.
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Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
