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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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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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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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
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There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
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As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.
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I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
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Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of just playing one, I could probably have found a cure to cancer within five years.
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As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
