Melody Carlson Quotes
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I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there,
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
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The crowds may miss the outbursts a bit. Sometimes it can be amusing, but other times, when it gets profane, there's no need for it.
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When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.
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There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.
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I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.
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Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
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living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts
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We with Alix MacKenzie had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.
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Shut off the internal bashing.
