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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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
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In terms of whether I use humor to allow me or my readers to come up for air, I don't think I put that much thought into it. I hate to say it, but I first have to entertain myself before I can think about the reader. I know that's kind of weird and selfish, but I write because it's fun, not because I need to put bread on the table.
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We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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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.
