Melanie Griffith Quotes
I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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I do think that all of us think in poems.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed.
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My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.
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Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.
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I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.
