Ella Purnell Quotes
There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.
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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.
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There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.
