Melanie Griffith Quotes
People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Birth was the death of him.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
