Melanie Lynskey Quotes
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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Music is a language.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
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I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.
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That show Biggest Loser is a dumb show. If I wanted to see fat people struggle with their weight, I'd go to my family reunion!
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Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.
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As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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If I could be working every day, I would be.
