Ella Woodward Quotes

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

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• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Unique
  • Brave

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Running
  • Best
  • Travel

• I don't like to go to the gym very much if I can help it.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Help
  • Gym

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Help
  • Baseball

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Family
  • Dad