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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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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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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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy, you in a way look fit.
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He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
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When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
