Melanie Griffith Quotes
If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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'Abusive' (or 'hostile,' which in this context I take to mean the same thing) does not seem to me a very clear standard - and I do not think clarity is at all increased by adding the adverb objectively or by appealing to a reasonable person's notion of what the vague word means.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Global warming is a scientific fact as much as the hole in the ozone layer or Earth's orbit around the sun.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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Spreading the word on a zero budget is difficult. You find yourself spending all night on Twitter following people; using Facebook to leave messages on various club walls; commenting on YouTube clips and blog posts; giving interviews online and taking photos of bottles to send to websites in the hope that they feature you.
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In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
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If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.
