Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
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I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
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Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
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We've got to be right mentally - to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.
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My parents were teachers.
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When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.
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Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.
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He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
