Dominique McElligott Quotes
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
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I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
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The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.
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I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.
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I don't like routine and I don't like rules.
