Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Joseph J. Ellis

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• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

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• At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

  

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• I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

  

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• Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.

  

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• I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

  

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  

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• Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

  

  Joseph J. Ellis
  • Fire
  • Temptation
  • Rush