Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I love working the legislative process.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I love bayou life.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.
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The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
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My family is more important than my party.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'
