Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
-
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
-
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
-
There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
-
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
-
When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
-
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
-
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
-
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
-
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
-
I'm a historian in my own mind.
-
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
-
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
-
The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.
-
History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
-
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
-
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
-
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
