Jay Ellis Quotes

A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the writers' room or one of the writers themselves told in the writers' room.

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• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Years

• I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Dog
  • Guitar

• I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Athlete
  • Sketchbooks
  • Uncoordinated

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Education
  • Change
  • Fight

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Lost
  • Loved
  • Lived

• I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.

  

  Larry David
  • Driving
  • Still
  • Yeah

• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Parents
  • Wife
  • Loved

• My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Fans
  • Everything

• I am proud of being a Somali-American Muslim, and my wardrobe has been an important part of my religious and cultural upbringing.

  

  Halima Aden
  • American
  • Proud
  • Religious

• There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • School
  • City
  • Walking

• Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Pain
  • Physical
  • Muscles

• There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

  

  Errollyn Wallen
  • Real
  • Want
  • Hardship

• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Fear
  • You
  • Failure

• A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the writers' room or one of the writers themselves told in the writers' room.

  

  Jay Ellis