Ellen Meloy Quotes
...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
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'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
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I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
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I help design my own tennis clothes.
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With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
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That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.
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Of the times that I've been able to overcome a fear, it's been by making it something that I can understand, that I can hold on to - just something that's more tangible.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
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While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
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People like to say how much they like stuff, but with 'The Sunset Tree,' people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff's so humbling and amazing.
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My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth.
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
