Melissa McCarthy Quotes

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

Melissa McCarthy

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LovePeopleSomeoneTryingPlace

We are here to entertain and ultimately put smiles on people's faces.

Jinder Mahal

PeopleSmilesHereFacesEntertain

I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.

Jillian Hervey

GoodPeopleFreeRememberYouI Can

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Jo Stafford

MercySufferSongsPerformer

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

John Davidson

WorkNew YorkWeekWhiteTrainNew

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

CommunicationGodWallSeparationUs

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Tom Landry

SimplicityThinkBetterPlayPlayers

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

GodManBibleEarthOpeningClear

Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.

Douglas Trumbull

MoviesHandUsedBecauseSecond

To be quite honest, I'm not religious.

Colin Hanks

HonestReligiousQuite

I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else.

Claire Danes

ExerciseMoreAnythingRelaxation

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

Alice Munro

ChangeMeWritingThinkThoughtYou

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Shelley Winters

LiveTogetherHappyProblemsTrying

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