Roger Jon Ellory Quotes
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
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My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my flight. Stop wastin' my time.' They're doing it to protect us. Their job is to do everything they're doing. We sometimes don't respect other people's jobs because we're caught up in our world.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
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Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.
