Warren Ellis Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
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I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.