Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
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All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
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A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
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If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.
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Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
