Melina Matsoukas Quotes
I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.

Quotes to Explore
-
Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
-
A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
-
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
-
It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
-
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
-
It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
-
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
-
I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
-
I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
-
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
-
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
-
My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
-
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
-
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
-
I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
-
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
-
With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?
-
The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
-
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
-
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
-
I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.
-
I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.