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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Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.
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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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I don't like routine and I don't like rules.
