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Paul Banks
"Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."" --
Source : "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.
Paul Banks
#New York Quotes
#Successful Quotes
#Play Quotes
“I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.”
“I don't think there can be anyone on earth more happy than I am right now. Inside, I feel fulfilled.”
Source : "Tejada beats A-Rod for AL MVP title". newsok.com. November 13, 2002.
“You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—”
“My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.”
“Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.”
“I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.”
Source : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.252, Penguin UK
“In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?”
“Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.”