Ella Purnell Quotes
When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I want to play interesting women.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
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I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.
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How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
