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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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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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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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!
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Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
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When in doubt, always opt for going naturel rather than hiding your skin under foundation and such. Line your eyes with kohl and mascara, put on some bright lip gloss and pinch your cheeks a little bit to get them all flushed and bright!
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I always feel like sugar cubes aren't big enough.
