Brooke Ellison Quotes
Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
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Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
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Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.
