David James Elliott Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
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A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
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Angolans who repatriate overseas funds and invest in the economy, companies that generate goods, services, and jobs won't be harassed. No questions will be asked about why their money was abroad, and they won't face legal prosecution.
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
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But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.
