Joseph J. Ellis Quotes
I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.
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Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.
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Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
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I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
