Melissa Leo Quotes
As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
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George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
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No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about.
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When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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The Obama administration's proposed nuclear deal with Iran endangers the security of our nation and our allies.
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With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
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WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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I really believe that my family's infrequency of getting sick is due to our diet.
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Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
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I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
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Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
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The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
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I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.
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As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.
