Ella Purnell Quotes
Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
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I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.
