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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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
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It has been said that America is a country for the poor, not for the rich. There would be more correctness in saying it is the country for both, where the latter have a relish for free government; but, proportionally, more for the former than for the latter.
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I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.
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America is the freest country on the planet, but for Snowden, this isn't enough. He is a state diplomat in Snowden land.
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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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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.
