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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Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.
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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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It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.
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The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.
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Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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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.
