Ella McMahon (Ella Eyre) Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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If you want to achieve something, you're going to run into roadblocks, but you have to learn how to pivot and explore your options.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.
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I've become more of a homebody, and I like that.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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I don't see life without a musical career. I really enjoy doing what I do.
