Jay Ellis Quotes
I'm insanely curious about life and everyone's story and where they come from and how they got to be who they are.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.
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Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
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There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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I'm insanely curious about life and everyone's story and where they come from and how they got to be who they are.
