Melina Matsoukas Quotes

I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.

Melina Matsoukas

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• Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Almost
  • Effective
  • Satire

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Friends
  • American
  • Man

• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Play
  • Like
  • Try

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

  

  Zendaya
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Model

• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Good
  • Live
  • Money

• I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Live
  • History
  • Goals

• You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • May
  • War

• On Sundays, I usually go to church with my mother.

  

  Mike Coffman
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Sundays

• Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Long
  • Energy
  • Technology

• I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Passion

• Genuine passion knows no mercy.

  

  Dereck Chisora
  • Passion
  • Mercy
  • Genuine

• I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.

  

  Melina Matsoukas
  • Passion