Melissa Rosenberg Quotes
My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
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I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'
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He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.
