Melissa De Sousa Quotes
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
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'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
