David R. Ellis Quotes
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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Being real is what is important.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.
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Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.
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As a child, I always wanted to be a race car pilot.
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So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
