Elizabeth Banks Quotes
The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
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You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.
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I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.
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The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.
