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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I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.
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The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.
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I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.
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Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.
