Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.
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Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
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Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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I feel like God has blessed me so much already, and he keeps continuing to bless me.
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It come partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and oldmaidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.
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I look really good in a scuba suit.
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...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.
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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'
