Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me
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Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.
