Ellen McLaughlin Quotes
In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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Inspiration is the key to everything.
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I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
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When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
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In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.
