Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

Melissa de la Cruz

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• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• To change what you get, you must change who you are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • You
  • Change
  • Must

• Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Phenomenal

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Art
  • Truth

• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Done

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star

• Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Money
  • Business
  • Power

• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Done
  • Preparation

• I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik

• I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

  

  James Woods
  • Life
  • Selfish

• If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.

  

  David Milch
  • Character

• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Friendship
  • Humans

• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Succeed
  • Sunset
  • Favourite

• Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

  

  Brenda Ueland
  • Life

• Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Trust
  • Flaws
  • Multitude