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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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
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Chat with Jerry Cantrell at ESPN.com (November 29, 2011).
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I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
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I think there's nothing better than a comedy that also is not afraid to have those heartfelt moments.
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Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
