Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
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I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
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I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.
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Being different gives the world color.
