Nelsan Ellis Quotes
'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.
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Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.
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Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.
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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
