Warren Ellis Quotes
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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All labels are offensive in some way.
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After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.
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I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
