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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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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I think I have always been a hard worker in school and in sports and everything. Growing up, my parents encouraged me to do that from day one.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
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People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.
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I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
