Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
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Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.
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This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.
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Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.
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It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.
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I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.
