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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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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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'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.
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I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.
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I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
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Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.