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Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

Melanie Lynskey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: May 16, 1977

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Grateful Woman Me Thank You You See

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Joan of Arc

King City End You Paris True

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.

Melissa McCarthy

Change Me Wind Criticism Thought

There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Trillium.'

Jeff Lemire

Work Sweet Sweet Tooth Like Between

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

Amal Clooney

Free Speech Matter Free Speech Only

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

Sonia Sotomayor

Live Faith Broken Fight Law Process

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Ronald Fisher

Degree High Natural Natural Selection

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

Father Dreams Time Mind Political

One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.

Dick Costolo

Great You Great Things Company Take

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

Doug Liman

Mistakes Yourself Comfort Zone Face

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.

Tituss Burgess

Work I Am Lucky Giants Comic Am

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

Richard Brautigan

Think Thirty Write Forty Years

I'm a little thirsty, can I go drink out of your toilet?

Mark McKinney

Go Drink Toilet Out Little Thirsty