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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In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's easier to believe that my discomfort comes from some fact that is being hidden from me.
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I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.
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I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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Women's music is underrepresented.
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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.
