Terry Ellis Quotes
Hey Y'all!!...we are on our way to rehearsal for BETHer taping today we're so excited and looking forward to the story telling intimacy!
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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There's always a source for humor.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.
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Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.
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Hey Y'all!!...we are on our way to rehearsal for BETHer taping today we're so excited and looking forward to the story telling intimacy!
