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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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 got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Medicine is so fascinating.
