Melanie Lynskey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
-
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
-
I am who I am.
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
Winners do what losers don't want to do.
-
I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
-
My schedule is so crazy.
-
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
-
I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
-
Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
-
Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
-
I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
-
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
-
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
-
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
-
Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
-
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
-
When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.
-
I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.
-
I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.
-
It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.
-
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
-
I was a very independent teenager.
