Melanne Verveer Quotes
Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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Your anger is a gift.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
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I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
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The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.
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I hate losing.
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Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.
