Steve Ells Quotes
Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
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"Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer."
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Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.
