Mike Scully Quotes
When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!
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Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
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I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.
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I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.
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Viewers know that I have a weird sense of humor, but that I'm serious about the game.
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There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.
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I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.
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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight, and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you.
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When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.
