Melda Productions Quotes & Sayings

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions. — Alexander Payne

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors. — Eleanor Catton

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it. — Danny DeVito

Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare. — James Lee Burke

No one else has to live my life but me, and I'm gonna do it my way. — Maris Black

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps. — Jennifer Granholm

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past. — Kobe Bryant

I see you are philosopher by nature. — Donna Tartt

Men are like turtles; they are classified and valued according to their shells. In — Jose Rizal

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq. — Patrick Cockburn

He who is attached to things will suffer much. — Laozi