Scott Ellis Quotes
The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.
