Melina Matsoukas Quotes

For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It's a lot of pressure, and it's scary, and I don't think that fear ever goes away.

Melina Matsoukas

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

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• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

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• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

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• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

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• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

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• I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

  

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• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

  

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• When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

  

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• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

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• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

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• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

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• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

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• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

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• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

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• In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.

  

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• When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.

  

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  

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• For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It's a lot of pressure, and it's scary, and I don't think that fear ever goes away.

  

  Melina Matsoukas
  • Fear
  • Walking
  • Scary