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When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. -- Deborah Kerr
I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough. -- Don Henley
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. -- David Hackworth
I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. -- Little Richard
During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing. -- Emma Thompson
I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself. -- Branford Marsalis
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to. -- Matt LeBlanc
Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room. -- Donald Glover
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about. -- Linwood Barclay
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time. -- John McEnroe
I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman. -- Kesha
I don't want the IRS banging down my door. -- Jessica Cutler
I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. -- Little Richard
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] -- Mark Twain
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. -- Michael Cunningham
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that -- Armand Assante
If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it. -- Lenny Wilkens
Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. -- Darren Shan
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. -- Robert Wyatt
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. . -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour. -- Mike Brown
Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno sound that rocked the dancefloor. He was a favorite then and still is now. -- TrentemÃ¸ller
Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women! -- Burt Ward
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having -- Jane Birkin
Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries. -- Ronnie Montrose
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree. -- Helen Fielding
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. -- Chris Lowe
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. -- Phil Collins
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later. -- Mario Andretti
I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked. -- Michael Dell
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert. -- Owen Paterson
I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. -- Elton John
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. -- Jane Birkin
Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' -- Matt Groening
I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation. -- Erin Cummings
I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it. -- Jack Dee
I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls. -- Fred Couples
Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance. -- Ben Shapiro
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!! -- Eazy-E
Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum. -- Clive Woodward
I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together. -- Sylvia Plath
You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. -- J. K. Rowling
[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room. -- Hugh Walpole
Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. -- Questlove
While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about. -- Theophilus London
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. -- James Dyson
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. -- Billy Collins
Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof. -- Roky Erickson
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. -- Maureen Johnson
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm. -- Malin Akerman
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. -- Maureen Johnson
If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head. -- Lenny Wilkens
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that. -- Armand Assante
I was banging seven-gram rocks, because thatâ??s how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: Go. -- Charlie Sheen
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. -- Dave Davies
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. -- Harry Shearer
It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun. -- David Douglas Duncan
Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. -- Stef Penney
I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out. -- Kim Wilde
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? -- Larry Wall
You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that. -- Thelma Schoonmaker
Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you. -- David Leavitt
I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it. -- Anthony Jeselnik
There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true. -- Mitch Albom
After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives? -- Tom Holt
It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. -- Cassandra Clare
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door. -- Peter Mayle
Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically. -- Bashar al-Assad
But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself. -- Emily Mortimer
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify. -- Tom Paulin
Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now. -- Ted Cruz
Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms. -- Marge Piercy
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio. -- Dwight Yoakam
If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall. -- David Belle
Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values? -- Jane Fonda
Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set. -- Jill Sobule
I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum. -- David Letterman
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make. -- Nick Bantock
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles. -- John McWhorter
He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.... -- J. K. Rowling
Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall. -- Saul Williams
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way. -- David Anders
When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it. -- Scott Wolf
My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string. -- Jon Stewart

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