Warren Ellis Quotes
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.
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When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.
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I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.
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In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
