Terry Ellis Quotes
Performing at the CIAA tournament was absolutely so cool because I am proud to say that I am an Alumni of an HBC.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
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Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.
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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
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Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.
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The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
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Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.
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Performing at the CIAA tournament was absolutely so cool because I am proud to say that I am an Alumni of an HBC.
