Warren Ellis Quotes
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
-
We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
-
As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
-
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
-
I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
-
Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
-
I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.
-
The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
-
We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
-
The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
-
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
-
I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
-
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
-
I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
-
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
-
I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
-
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
-
I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
-
Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
-
I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
-
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
