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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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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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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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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I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
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Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
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I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.
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It's a funny song and a funny video about a very serious topic. A lot of women die at the hands of their husbands.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
