Emun Elliott Quotes
I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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A chi in amor s'invecchia, oltr'ogni pena,Si convengono i ceppi e la catena.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
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I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
