Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
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Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.
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I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
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I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
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I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
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Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
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Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.
