Elvis Mitchell Quotes

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Big Fan

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Free
  • Young

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Live
  • Name
  • Mankind

• I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Song
  • Day
  • Everyday

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Teach
  • Go
  • University

• I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Government
  • Promise

• My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

  

  Liz Murray
  • She
  • Mother

• I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

  

  Charles King
  • Church
  • Powerful

• I'm so tired of talking about Warren Buffett.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Tired

• When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• 'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Movie
  • Proud

• The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Movie