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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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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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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Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'
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We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.
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Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
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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.
