Melanie Mayron Quotes
My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I choose to express myself.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.
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Praise the Lord for all good things. We blew their balls into shards of dust,Into shards of fucking dust. We did it. Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
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My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.
