David R. Ellis Quotes

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

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• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

  Dan Hill
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• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  

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• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

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• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
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• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
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• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
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• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

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• What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

  

  Joe Nichols
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• It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

  

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• Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.

  

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• As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
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• I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

  

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• Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

  

  David R. Ellis
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