Melissa George Quotes
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.
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I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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Professional Southerners sicken me.
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
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Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
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Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs.
