Melanie Lynskey Quotes
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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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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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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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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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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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'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
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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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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.
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If I could be working every day, I would be.
