Roger Jon Ellory Quotes
Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I have to be where the best work can be done.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.
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Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.
