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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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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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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The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
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So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.
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Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
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UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.
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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
