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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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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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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I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.
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I am dying of hunger.
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Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
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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.
