Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
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I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Bluid is thicker than water.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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Thomas - Jefferson - still surv -
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How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else, How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself.
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Wrestling has grown so big... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has all kinds of vibes and rap has all kinds of vibes.
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I have fun just about everywhere I go.
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The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.
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If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
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Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.
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While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence will always lead you to your dreams.
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I had no intention of being an actor.
