Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
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The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
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Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
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If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
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The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.
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I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.
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To earn more, you must learn more.
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The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
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I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.
