Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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Failure is a part of success.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.
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I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
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Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
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I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
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I love Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' - he's very good. And the 'Modern Family' cast just cracks me up.
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I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.
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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
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Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
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It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out.
