Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.
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The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
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Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.
