Melissa Leo Quotes
I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
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In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government.
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Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.
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As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
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I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.
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The essence of love is concern.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.
