Melanie Lynskey Quotes
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.
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To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.
