Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

Melanie Lynskey

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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

John Updike

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I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Rosemary Clooney

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All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.

Mickalene Thomas

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Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Michael Jordan

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Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

Luis Fonsi

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I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

Christopher Alexander

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I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

Bobby Jindal

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The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

Allison Janney

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I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

Scott Bakula

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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

Thomas Frank

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Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

Nick Saban

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