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.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Free
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Up
  • World
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Wolf

• Just try to add more things to my game each year.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Try
  • Year

• Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Enough

• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Me
  • Find

• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Live
  • News
  • Phone

• There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Rest
  • Problems

• When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence

  

  Patanjali

• 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.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

  

  Livy

• All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Hope
  • Profound
  • Kiss

• 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.

  

  Coco Lee
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• 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.

  

  James Comey
  • Past

• I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

  

  Joe Penny
  • People

• OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Earth
  • Meet
  • God's Judgment Seat

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet Jackson likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Music
  • Records
  • Solo project

• Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happiness
  • Guard
  • Wander

• You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Love
  • Happy
  • For Her

• I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

  

  Melanie Lynskey