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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Elves are cool, man.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
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It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
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Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!
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The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.
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Shut off the internal bashing.
