Melissa Leo Quotes

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.

Melissa Leo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1960

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FamilyMotherMeBackPlayAlways

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

Joakim Noah

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I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

John Cameron Mitchell

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When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

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How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

Robert Gottlieb

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I have seen countless colleagues struggle to come to terms with retirement. I learned a lot from Richard Dunwoody when he was riding, and I completely understand why he took off and undertook what most people consider mad challenges.

Tony McCoy

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It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Rose Byrne

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It's hard to be at your best and to know exactly what is your best at all times because even when you do see yourself, you think you could be better, and you often feel that there is something you could have done differently.

Ronnie Coleman

BestYourselfThinkBetterFeelYou

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

Michael Pollan

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If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

Lisa Randall

GoodWomenScienceYouWillKeep

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

Jayma Mays

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Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado

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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

Don McCullin

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