Elizabeth Banks Quotes
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams -
To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
Langhorne Slim -
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
Harold Prince -
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
Bebe Moore Campbell
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden -
Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
Iqbal Quadir -
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
Sam Mendes -
It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
Forest Whitaker -
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Kate Chopin
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom, whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
John Adams -
Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg-that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
Ben Harper -
I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.
Jeff Bridges -
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
Edwin Louis Cole -
I feel really good in the teacher role.
Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
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Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
Fredrik Bajer -
For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
Michael Gove -
The welfare system in the United States is vile.
Daniel Keys Moran -
I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
Elizabeth Banks