Ella Purnell Quotes
It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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I taught my executive team how to argue.
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When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
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Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.
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I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
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Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
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It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.
