Melina Matsoukas Quotes
I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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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.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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.
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Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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.
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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.
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With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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There is no time frame for the resumption.
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I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.
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You can be great just by being yourself.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.
