Deborah Ellis quote: "I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside."

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but ha...
DEBORAH ELLIS

There's a desire to protect children from the horrors of the world at the same time other children a...
DEBORAH ELLIS

The people who are raising the objections are good people I just happen to disagree with them.
DEBORAH ELLIS

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not ...
ALBERT ELLIS

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the i...
WARREN ELLIS

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work befor...
WARREN ELLIS

I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
WARREN ELLIS

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
WARREN ELLIS

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
WARREN ELLIS

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for h...
WARREN ELLIS

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as...
WARREN ELLIS

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on...
WARREN ELLIS

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
WARREN ELLIS

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
WARREN ELLIS

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
WARREN ELLIS

It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who ha...
WARREN ELLIS

The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up a...
WARREN ELLIS

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousan...
WARREN ELLIS

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't ki...
WARREN ELLIS

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had w...
WARREN ELLIS

I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
WARREN ELLIS

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research ab...
WARREN ELLIS

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
WARREN ELLIS

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt tho...
WARREN ELLIS

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...
WARREN ELLIS

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
WARREN ELLIS

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
WARREN ELLIS

I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subcult...
WARREN ELLIS

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
WARREN ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
NELSAN ELLIS

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas...
ALBERT ELLIS

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct ...
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the l...
ELLIS PETERS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas whi...
ALBERT ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock ...
ALBERT ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of...
ALBERT ELLIS

He appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.
ALBERT ELLIS

I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't,...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happe...
NELSAN ELLIS

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the nee...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable ex...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of vie...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein...
TOM ELLIS

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
HAVELOCK ELLIS

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the pop...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alo...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and rela...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of a...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere tran...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy,...
ALBERT ELLIS

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the r...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to w...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
ALBERT ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within rea...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching ...
ALBERT ELLIS

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. N...
ALBERT ELLIS

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal...
AUNJANUE ELLIS

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
ALBERT ELLIS

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sym...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it...
WARREN ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

We believe we have the tools in place to stay on top these metrics going forward. We are starting th...
ANDY ELLIS

A very simple test proved to be remarkably successful at distinguishing people with early Alzheimer'...
ANDY ELLIS

They are animals whose names children tend to learn more at around the age of six to 10 rather than ...
ANDY ELLIS

People with a high vocabulary will often detect that they are having problems, ... but if you give t...
ANDY ELLIS

There is considerable value in identifying people who are beginning to show the first signs and this...
ANDY ELLIS

It is possible that exploring the characteristics of the words that are still available to them migh...
ANDY ELLIS

The next phase of the research is to look into the possibility of making a prognostic guide,
ANDY ELLIS

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
NELSAN ELLIS

We've done really well with the daytime shopping crowd. The type of person that will come in the eve...
AMY ELLIS

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.
AMY ELLIS

Bringing in musicians from around the Tampa Bay area and helping them get to know our town is great.
AMY ELLIS

The biggest thing about this event that's different (is) we've been able to pull in some amazing mus...
AMY ELLIS

In the long run, you see, none of that matters.

I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a...
WARREN ELLIS

To be honest, that last month of college was one big party.
ALEX ELLIS

Women were becoming more sassy and finding a voice for themselves. I can relate to that a lot.
ALEX ELLIS

I sang my heart out, and afterwards I was like, if I don't get this, that's OK because I gave them e...
ALEX ELLIS

It's a romantic comedy, and it's really, really fun. The play actually just uses just a little bit o...
ALEX ELLIS

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people ar...
ALBERT ELLIS

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
ELLIS PETERS

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and ...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of p...
ALBERT ELLIS

Being different makes you beautiful.
NELSAN ELLIS

Being different gives the world color.
NELSAN ELLIS

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
ELLIS PETERS

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous beca...
ALBERT ELLIS

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my ob...
ALBERT ELLIS

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sen...
ELLIS PETERS

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Ap...
TOM ELLIS

Eddie was disappointed that he missed those free throws but I told him that we wouldn't have had tha...
BRIAN ELLIS

We played hard in the fourth quarter to get back in the game. We're just not coming to play four qua...
BRIAN ELLIS

We have got to start finding a third or fourth scorer. ... I told the guys before the game tonight (...
BRIAN ELLIS

I wasn't very confident that we could play with Herkimer without Brian Radley but we showed that we ...
BRIAN ELLIS

They understood their roles in how we wanted to break the press. These are mostly guys up from the J...
BRIAN ELLIS

Sometimes you've got to win ugly. We didn't play well on our floor and I think that was because of o...
BRIAN ELLIS

We were not smart on our shot selection early in the game. We've got people on the floor who still h...
BRIAN ELLIS

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.
BRIAN ELLIS

I know West Canada didn't have a real good shooting night but I think sometimes our defense created ...
BRIAN ELLIS

That was a huge play. They stole the rebound and took it from a two-point game to a five-point game ...
BRIAN ELLIS

We've been working really hard on being consistent on both ends. LC is a very consistent team. If yo...
BRENDA ELLIS

Last time we played them, they made some runs and we didn't have any answers. This time LC made a co...
BRENDA ELLIS

That was my hope, to give Brittany plenty of playing time on the JV team. I really figured she would...
BRENDA ELLIS

It was a great team effort, and we've really been working on playing together as a team.
BRENDA ELLIS

Defense was definitely our best offense last night.
BRENDA ELLIS

We've been working on pressure man defense. Early on this season we used some zone, but just with ou...
BRENDA ELLIS

We've been getting some help at practice by playing a 6-foot-5 girl. We've been defending her and sh...
BRENDA ELLIS

We played great defense, the girls were very disciplined.
BRENDA ELLIS

We just missed a couple of key baskets and they were able to capitalize. They were a little more con...
BRENDA ELLIS

There are a lot of good teams in this tournament. This is going to be a tough district to get out of...
BRENDA ELLIS

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely t...
BRET ELLIS

I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET ELLIS

I grew up in suburbia,
BRET ELLIS

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS

Even though our campus is predominantly female, that major is down.
BRENT ELLIS

(Reverend Walter) McLean who came in 1927 often didn't take his salary. There just wasn't money for ...
BRENT ELLIS

It started with people meeting in their homes.
BRENT ELLIS

We seem to be holding our own financially. There's a good core congregation here that works hard.
BRENT ELLIS

The continuing Presbyterians stayed on (with Chalmers).
BRENT ELLIS

I could look at sales six months ago and they're at one level, but this year there might be 28 homes...
BRETT ELLIS

Should you need to sell the home within a year or two there is not a lot of equity there.
BRETT ELLIS

Probably in the last six months I've seen more 100% financing deals than I've seen in the last two t...
BRETT ELLIS

Because we have more inventory right now prices are starting to come down. The market is re-balancin...
BRETT ELLIS

We're starting to see hundreds of price reductions a day.
BRETT ELLIS

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.
BRETT ELLIS

There had been some pent up demand that seems to have entered the market. I think people saw a respi...
BRETT ELLIS

We did see a drop-off in buyer volume.
BRETT ELLIS

Gateway is still a solid market. Homes are actually selling well.
BRETT ELLIS

But gated communities aren't necessarily a guarantee of safety. The bad guys don't respond to gates ...
BRETT ELLIS

Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â...
BRET ELLIS

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
BRET ELLIS

It should have been written already,
BRET ELLIS

I locked myself in a room for a month,
BRET ELLIS

Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS

After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
BRET ELLIS

It was a beautiful landing. But I asked Kenny, 'Why didn't you land it in that big green area with a...
BOB ELLIS

The fruits of the pastor's labors have been truly appalling.
BOB ELLIS

There can be situations, but they would be rare, where if we felt the case was at risk, to not requi...
BOB ELLIS

We share the concern as to the importance of registration in these cases, and this one is no differe...
BOB ELLIS

In his usual perverse way, because he is so good at it, he thinks little of acting. Because he has a...
BOB ELLIS

He is possibly the most accomplished screen actor in the country. He has an intimacy with the camera...
BOB ELLIS

We just haven't seen cases that warrant prosecution in that way.
BOB ELLIS

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becom...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man out...
WARREN ELLIS

You're always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you ...
TOM ELLIS

Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the court...
ELLIS ANDERSON

It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device ...
ELLIS ANDERSON

We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process...
ELLIS ANDERSON

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

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Deborah Ellis

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

Deborah Ellis

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