Melissa Leo Quotes
I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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Kris Dunn is a very athletic point guard.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
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One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
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Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.
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I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
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My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.
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You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.
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I always put myself in the audience's seat, whether it is a film like 'Judwaa 2' or 'Badlapur.' There has to be a message; the core story needs to have a hook, which should be out of the ordinary.
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When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.
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I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.
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I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
