Elizabeth Banks Quotes
You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
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People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.
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If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
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Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.
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George Bernard Shaw once said: “Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” When liberals make the argument that capitalism is the cause of all of our problems, they are either speaking out of abject ignorance or being totally disingenuous to protect their own political interests. We have not had true free-market capitalism in this country on any wide scale. Where we have had economic successes in this nation’s history, it has been those times when people have done something outside of the government’s involvement. Every single time the federal government has been involved, it has created chaos, waste, and corruption. The historical record is overwhelmingly one of gross incompetence.
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You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
