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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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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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'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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I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.
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Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.
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I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.
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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.
