Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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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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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
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Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
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I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
