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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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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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
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If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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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.
