Melanie Lynskey Quotes
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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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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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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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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An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.
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I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.
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Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
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I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
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I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.'
