Scott Ellis Quotes

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.

Scott Ellis

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Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Joe Haldeman

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I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

Jessica Williams

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Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

Joel C. Rosenberg

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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

John Hume

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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Andy Rooney

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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Jeff Lynne

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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

Stewart Udall

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Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

Tony Stewart

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I'm a big boy, and I knew what I was getting into when I got into TV.

Mike O'Malley

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Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo

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For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Michael Parkinson

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