L.A. Banks Quotes

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

I have a Father's Day every day

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

I like my coffee light.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear

Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.