Melanie Swan Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
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I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.
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Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies.
