Melanie Laurent Quotes
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
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I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
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To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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There are at the present time two great nations in the world-allude to the Russians and the Americans- All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding-along a path to which no limit can be perceived.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.
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I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country.
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Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world
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I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.
