Ellen Pompeo Quotes
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Quotes to Explore
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
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Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
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All men know their children mean more than life.
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I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.
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I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
