Melanie Lynskey Quotes
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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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.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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Respect the burden.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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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.
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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.
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Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
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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.
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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.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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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.
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Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
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Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.
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North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
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I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.'
