Melanie Laurent Quotes
I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.
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I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.
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I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.
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Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!
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Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
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I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.
