Melinda Clarke Quotes
I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
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It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.
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I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
