Ella Purnell Quotes

The 1950s is my favourite era.

Ella Purnell

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Mother

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Big

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Favorite
  • Pink
  • Sign

• Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

  

  Karen O
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Struggle

• China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • History
  • China

• You never know what can happen in football. It's football.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Football

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Know
  • Water

• I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Think
  • Me
  • Line

• I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Future
  • Thought

• In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Important
  • Age
  • Television

• When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Feet
  • Boat
  • Heels

• Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• I've seen the needle and the damage done.A little part of it in everyone.But every junkie's like a settin' sun.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Done
  • Sun

• Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Enthusiasm
  • Angels
  • Victims

• I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.

  

  Dave McClure

• When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Walking

• The 1950s is my favourite era.

  

  Ella Purnell