Ellen Pompeo Quotes
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.
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Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that's fine. At our shows, it's like a Halloween party, which isn't a bad thing. I'd like to see more of it actually.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Medicine is so fascinating.
