Ella Purnell Quotes
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.
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When times get rough, keep your head up.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.
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I always feel like sugar cubes aren't big enough.
