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 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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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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 would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.
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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
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I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.
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Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
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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?
