Melcherts Quotes & Sayings

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts. — Dana Spiotta

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery. — Ahmed Sekou Toure

Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home. — Nouriel Roubini

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. — Laura Hillenbrand

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal. — John Allen Fraser

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed. — William Barclay

I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open. — Tommy Wiseau

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you. — Russell Simmons

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law. — Tina Yothers

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.' — Dule Hill

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me. — Frank Langella

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real. — Nathaniel Benchley

...'My father called me an enthusiast. I am enthusiastic about things. A lot of things.' - Mary — Joseph Monninger

Always listen to your customers. — Joel Salatin