Alexander John Ellis Quotes
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
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I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.
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I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.
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A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.
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I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.
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Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
