Melissa Ordway Quotes
I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I always watch the work I do.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.
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The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.
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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
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I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
