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.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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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.
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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.
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To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
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If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
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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.
