Melina Matsoukas Quotes
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
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Life is good, when you live in such a way to make it so.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.
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Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.
