David R. Ellis Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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I don't have many friends.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
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Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.
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Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
