Melina Matsoukas Quotes
I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.
Quotes to Explore
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
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I train to fight, to win.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
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The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
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The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
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I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
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I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.
