Melanie Laurent Quotes
Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
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I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.
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Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'
