Melina Matsoukas Quotes
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'Melina Matsoukas
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
G. Willow Wilson -
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Olympia Dukakis -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount -
I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
Valerie Simpson
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson -
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
R. Kelly -
If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
Mads Mikkelsen -
More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
Kate Voegele
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
Major Owens -
We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
T. B. Joshua -
I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
Larry Wilcox -
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson -
I always want more, and that's just my life.
Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips -
Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.
John Carroll Lynch -
When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are black film-makers and storytellers who take a back seat to just get it done. It's good, but it's not right there. It's been compromised.
John Singleton -
The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
William Fogg Osgood -
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'
Melina Matsoukas