Warren Ellis Quotes
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I said please don't be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put the hand over, like, don't hit their head, and they've just killed somebody, don't hit their head? I said, you can take the hand away, OK.
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The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every indignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.
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The true achievement of Augustus is that he saved the world from disintegration. Without him Rome must have lost her conquests one by one, and seen them relapse into barbarism or degenerate into petty satrapies. The wild peoples of the East and North would have ante-dated their invasions by centuries.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
