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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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
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Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.
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It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.
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To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
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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.
