Emun Elliott Quotes
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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My family are my friends.
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
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People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.
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I love writing about unknown people.
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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
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The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!
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As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
