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.

Melissa Leo

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• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Give

• 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.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• 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.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
  • Philosophy

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Government

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Peace
  • Become
  • Smoke

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • She
  • Think
  • Nice

• Reason alone does not suffice.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Alone

• 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.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People

• So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Real
  • Trump

• 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.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World
  • Game
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • She
  • Friend
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Believe

• The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Chance
  • Stars
  • Might

• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Together

• I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Real
  • Food
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Struggle
  • Ashamed
  • Horrible