Scott Ellis Quotes

The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.

Scott Ellis

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As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Joanna Lumley

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Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.

Ann Leckie

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If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

Mason Cooley

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I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

Luise Rainer

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I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

Christopher Priest

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The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically alter Medicare and Social Security.

Claire McCaskill

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I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Chuck Klosterman

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People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

Peter DeFazio

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The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Peter Jackson

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