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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Low-value payments are now possible. Now, Ripple can make it easy for Facebook and Uber and Amazon to make payments to developers in real time. It's online and completely global.
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I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.
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You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.
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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.
