Melanie Mayron Quotes
If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.
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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
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Liberals always blame the other guy.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.
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If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.
