Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I don't know, I love it when I see movies with people who are not super familiar to me or people who I've seen in smaller parts who are suddenly getting a chance to do something bigger. For me that's very exciting.
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I am not honest.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
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I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
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The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I don't know, I love it when I see movies with people who are not super familiar to me or people who I've seen in smaller parts who are suddenly getting a chance to do something bigger. For me that's very exciting.
