Elijah Kelley Quotes
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state.
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You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
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My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.
