Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
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The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
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Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
