Melanie Mayron Quotes
I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
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'Righteous Abel,' says Matthew 23:34-45. What luck! So there is a righteous race! No such thing: Abel dies leaving no children, a fact full of meaning. He is unable to transmit his righteousness.
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I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.
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I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.
