Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
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He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
