Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
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I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.
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I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.
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I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
