Melanie Lynskey Quotes

Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I'm very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real.

Melanie Lynskey

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I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

Joe Murray

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You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

Jesse Ventura

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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

John Burroughs

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Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

Jerry Lewis

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If it was up to me, every show would start at midnight, and I'd give people the best of me.

Jeremih

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The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.

John McCain

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Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast.

Robert Giroux

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I'm confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country's biggest problems.

Jeff Duncan

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My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

Trevor Noah

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Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people.

Tony Evans

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Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

Rita Wilson

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Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

RuPaul

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