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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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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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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
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Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
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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?
