Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
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I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.
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I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.
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Let gay people get married.
