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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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I have grown up in the bright light of America.
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.
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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.
