Scott Ellis Quotes

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

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• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Country
  • Help

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Fish
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• My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.

  

  Laura Prepon
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  • Fit
  • Vintage

• The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Done
  • Thought

• You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.

  

  Adrian Mitchell
  • Eyes
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• I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Black

• We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• When my family first found out about my part in 'EastEnders' they were happy for me and very supportive.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Family
  • Happy

• The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Success

• Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Purpose

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Write
  • Someone

• I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

  

  Carl Reiner
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  • She

• Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Food
  • Anxiety
  • Eating

• I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

  

  David Grann
  • Up

• My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

  

  Scott Ellis
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