Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
Quotes to Explore
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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We smooch hardcore.
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The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.
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Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?
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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
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Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
