Jay Ellis Quotes
I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women's shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
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Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.
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It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
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The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women's shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.
