Keith Ellison Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.
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It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
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I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.
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We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.
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You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
