Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

Melanie Lynskey

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MyselfFeelTalkingKindSomething

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

Jim Crace

CommunityTraditionYouPersonKnow

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

Jez Butterworth

CharacterPeopleFeelBagYouKnow

A family's love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.

John Delaney

FamilyLoveBestTogetherLove Is

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

Michael Jackson

I AmNeverAnythingWhoPartAm

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul

ForgivenessBeautifulHumanityNever

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Steven Spielberg

GoodMeBackOnlyDirectingThing

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Tom Landry

SportsFootballGameSometimes

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

Luis Alberto Urrea

FamilyRacismIdentityBelieveSaid

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

Loretta Napoleoni

GreatLegalGlobalizationBlossom

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Lorraine Toussaint

ChildrenSmallThinkYouAnimalsUp

My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for a sexy, tousled look.

Lou Doillon

MotherMeHairSexyLookPossible

When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.

Dawn Richard

GoodPurposeUnderstandingYouBad

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