Jennifer Ellison Quotes

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

Jennifer Ellison

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• Ballet

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Love
  • Stop

• As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Journey

• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Loser

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Important
  • Together
  • Laugh

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Enemy
  • Idea
  • Something

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Success

• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Day

• I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

  

  Laetitia Pilkington
  • Believe
  • Disease
  • Admonition

• Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • For Her

• Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

  

  Emma Bonino
  • Great
  • Women

• English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Way

• The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Ideas
  • Ignorance
  • Shows

• Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • God
  • Dad
  • Shoes