Jay Ellis Quotes
Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
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What happened was we decided to ignore the music industry and have some fun, because nothing was happening for us anyway. Maybe it proves that the best way to succeed is to do what you love and forget everything else everyone tells you.
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If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.
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Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.
