Albert Ellis Quotes
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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You cannot play naive if you're not.
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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
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And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.
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I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.
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And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
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I work 15 hours a day and still go to the gym. Most people work eight hours a day and say, 'I haven't got time to work out.'
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When I was young, we had these parties, and they'd make me sing in front of the family all the time.
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I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.
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Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
