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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I always pack a travel snack bag. You don't want to get stuck without snacks no matter where you go!
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
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I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.
