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Mélanie Berliet

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I like to write, yo.
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6,037 quotes curated by Mélanie Berliet:

“Sometimes I cannot take this place. Sometimes it's my life I can't taste. Sometimes I cannot feel my face. You'll never see me fall from grace.”
— Korn, Freak On a Leash
Tagged: Highs and Lows
“Can't I take away all this pain?”
— Korn, Freak On a Leash
Tagged: Pain, Sad, Need To Leave, Stop It!
“Ooh, a storm is threatening my very life today.”
— The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter
Tagged: Vietnam War
“For far too many people, the more things have changed, the more things stayed the same.”
— Barack Obama, The Nelson Mandela Lecture
“Novels are complex. Novels are absorbing. Novels have an interiority that TV can’t touch. Novels are comfortable with the basic human fact that people don’t really change. And, what’s more, with a novel comes an expenditure of effort.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It
Tagged: Novels vs. TV, Books vs. TV, Literature and Media, Media
“Writing a novel — you alone in a room with your own thoughts — might be the only way to get a maximal kind of satisfaction from your creative efforts. All the other ways can break your heart.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It
Tagged: Creative Control, writing a novel, Writing
“She knows I beat to my own drum. My whole family knows that I do whatever I'm going to do. I've been that way my whole life.”
— Kylie Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott on Love, Making It Work, and the Kardashian Curse
Tagged: Do My Own Thing, My Way Or The Highway
“When a liar gets caught in a lie, they don’t come clean. They build a bigger lie.”
— Pete / Marius Josipovic, Sneaky Pete, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Lies, Pathological Liars
“The holy trinity. A drink, a lady, and a whole lot of cash.”
— Vince Lonigan, Sneaky Pete, Season 1: Lieutenant Bernhardt
Tagged: Different Kinds of Trinities, NSFW Trinity, Money, Alcohol, Cash
“Since I've met you, you've been kind of boy crazy. It's good to see you focusing on your work for a change.”
— Diana Trout, Younger, Season 4: A Novel Marriage
Tagged: boy crazy