Nelsan Ellis Quotes
You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
