David James Elliott Quotes
Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
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I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.
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Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.
