Warren Ellis Quotes
The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Allu Arjun is one of the most stylish actors. We should take care of our looks when acting with him because he wears the best of costumes, and if we don't take care, we would look like a housemaid beside him.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.
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Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.
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Human beings all mimic each other.
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Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
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Manic depression is a frustrating mess.
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The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
