Elizabeth Banks Quotes
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
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You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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My acting gives me my self-worth.
