Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
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He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.
