Jay Ellis Quotes
I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.
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In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends. For kids in New York and L.A., maybe it's different, but for kids in Iowa, for kids in Tennessee, it's still something that's not really talked about.
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I used to spend a couple of hours in the weight room, but really, an hour is long enough. I lift twice a week and on other days incorporate more core yoga and different exercises. It's important to listen to your body. I will shut it down if I'm tired.
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Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
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I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.
