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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Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.
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My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.
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It would be inaccurate to say that John Fowles is a middlebrow writer who sometimes hopes he is a highbrow: it has never occurred to him to believe otherwise. There is a difference, morally.
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There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
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In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
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I don't like routine and I don't like rules.
