Ella Leya Quotes
Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
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A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
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Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
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The European vision is the United Nations' vision.
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I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ (Hays translation)
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
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A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
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I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.
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Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.
