Deborah Ellis Quotes
I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
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I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
