Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence
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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that
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I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
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Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
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We're basically looking at it through different lenses. There's a difference of vantage points.
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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
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The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.
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The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.
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I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
