Ellen Hopkins Quotes
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I grew up on films.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
