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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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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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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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.
