Melina Matsoukas Quotes
Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
-
It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
-
We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
-
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
-
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
-
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
-
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
-
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
-
The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
-
I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
-
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
-
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
-
Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
-
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
-
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
-
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
-
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
-
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
-
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
-
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
-
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.
-
Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.
