Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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No man may make another free.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I'm not a negative person.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
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Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.
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This historically has been an issue that both parties have run away from. For the first time, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in its platform are making this issue, about needing to do better as a country to take common sense steps to help prevent gun violence.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
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I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
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My life gets better every year.
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I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
