Ellie Goulding Quotes
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I love action movies.
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What I know bores me.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.
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Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
