Nelsan Ellis Quotes
If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It's another level of satisfaction - another level of sadness.
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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
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If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
