Theodore Melfi Quotes

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

Theodore Melfi

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People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

Joanne Liu

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I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

Jo Nesbo

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Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Robert Reich

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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Robert Darnton

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In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.

Roger Rees

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I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

Mary Balogh

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I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.

Mike Posner

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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Mary Astell

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For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abrogated by Trump - was part of the 'pivot to Asia,' a re-assertion of the role of America in that part of the world.

Joseph Stiglitz

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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Dolly Parton

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When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.

Corey Feldman

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Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they could still flatten such popular hominid hangouts as Manhattan or downtown Des Moines.

Seth Shostak

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