Ellen Meloy Quotes
Airtight allegiance to place could make you a loser, left behind by the great sweep of a monochromatic, generalist world.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
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I have noticed a difference in myself spiritually. I have had a better relationship with my wife and kids. It's because I am putting the gospel first. I just wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize it.
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May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
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Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.
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If you understand the importance of developing a relationship with the director and making that director see that you're the best technical adviser and resource in the world on your subject, you'll be invited on set as a respected and integral part of the process.
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Airtight allegiance to place could make you a loser, left behind by the great sweep of a monochromatic, generalist world.
