Melina Matsoukas Quotes
I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
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I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
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I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.
