Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.
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You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
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Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
