Nelsan Ellis Quotes

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

Nelsan Ellis

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Live
  • Amazing
  • Weather

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Decision

• It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Matter
  • Cowboy

• I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Life
  • Music
  • Dance