Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.'

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • History
  • Poetry

• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Never
  • Endless
  • Surprises

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• Respect the burden.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Respect
  • Burden

• Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Better
  • Movies
  • More

• I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Voice
  • Reach
  • Social Media

• If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Want
  • You
  • Story

• Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Done
  • Character
  • Single

• If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Think
  • Partner

• I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Country
  • Very
  • Conservative

• I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• I think, with every kid I coach, I'm trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Do The Right Thing

• Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Writing
  • Together
  • End

• I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Think
  • Me
  • Grooming

• Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Age
  • City
  • Brain

• When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Consolation

• In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Particular
  • Supreme
  • Hereditary

• The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Men
  • Women
  • Army

• I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • People
  • Strong
  • Path

• I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.'

  

  Melanie Lynskey