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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Should

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Exploring
  • Dropping

• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Real
  • Feedback

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Forget

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  

  Isabella Bird
  • Worship
  • Universal
  • Divinity

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• If a girl sings a sexy song, I actually become even more attracted to them.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• When I die I want to go to Vogue.

  

  David Bailey
  • Die

• We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.

  

  Barry Leiba
  • Story
  • Consider
  • Crannies

• There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • People
  • Family
  • Career