Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't eat any red meat.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
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American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
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Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.
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I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.
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I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.
