Harry Melling Quotes
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.
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Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
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Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.
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I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
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Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
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One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
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What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.
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I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.
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For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
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I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.
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The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!
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Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.
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I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.
