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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Life in California is beautiful.
-
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.
-
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
-
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
-
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.
-
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
-
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
-
It's nice not to be too boring.
-
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
-
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
-
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.
-
I believe in forgiveness.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
-
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
-
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
-
You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
-
We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.
-
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
-
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.
