Nelsan Ellis Quotes
When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
Nelsan Ellis
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
Nathan Sawaya
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
Frances McDormand
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
Sam Altman
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The aggregation of the spiritual life from the practical life is a curse that falls impartially upon both sides of our existence. A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
Lewis Mumford
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Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.
Jocko Willink
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You should know how to work hard but also enjoy the work.
Olena Vitrychenko
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Christianity, we might say, is driving around with a loaded gun in its glove compartment, and that loaded gun is its violent image of God. It’s driving around with a license to kill, and that license is its Bible, read uncritically. Along with its loaded gun and license to kill, it’s driving around with a sense of entitlement derived from a set of beliefs with a long, ugly, and largely unacknowledged history.
Brian D. McLaren
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When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
Nelsan Ellis