Leslie Banks Quotes

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

Leslie Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 9, 1890 - April 21, 1952

Topics

LifePeopleWorldLookNewsHuman

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Jerry Stiller

CreativeComedyGrowingMineLike

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Maya Angelou

MotherMeParentKindBecame

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

Matthew Walker

WorkSuccessBusinessTimeSleep

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

LoveGodCharityNothingHumanFar

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Robert B. Parker

LifeLiveSmallThinkWayWrite

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Mary Manin Morrissey

PatienceGodMyselfI AmChildDeep

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

Dick Dale

KingMeGuitarKidsSurf

I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.

Douglas Coupland

TimeThoughtLostSayWillInside

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

Christopher McQuarrie

StoryYouAudienceEverythingPay

In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.

Borje Ekholm

BusinessExperiencePastCompetition

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

Bruce Nauman

StartFindingFeelingWayMeanTask

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

Anthony Michael Hall

WorkRespectMeWeekHealthyMy Own

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