Nelsan Ellis Quotes
There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
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There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
