Melanie Laurent Quotes
The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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Hear the other side.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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My education was very tough.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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If we start to use social media data sets to take the pulse of a nation or understand a crisis - or actually use it to deploy resources - we are getting a skewed picture of what is happening.
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
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Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'
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The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.