Melina Matsoukas Quotes
The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I've had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.Melina Matsoukas
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
Nancy Lublin -
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias -
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
Calista Flockhart -
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
Edgar Wright
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
Ian Millar -
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu -
The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
Francesco Totti -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey -
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton -
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
Daniel Boulud
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
Gary Bettman -
I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
Urs Fischer -
My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
Lara Logan -
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis -
Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.
Danny K. Davis -
I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.
Kate O'Mara -
You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.
Zack Snyder -
The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I've had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.
Melina Matsoukas