Melonie Diaz Quotes
Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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I'm someone that speaks with their pads.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.
