Melissa Leo Quotes
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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Reason alone does not suffice.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.
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I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.
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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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TV and film has defined my entire life.
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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
