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'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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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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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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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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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
