Aunjanue Ellis Quotes

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

Aunjanue Ellis

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Race
  • Bestial

• We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Children
  • See

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Ashamed
  • Who

• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Problems
  • Down

• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Want
  • Look
  • Apple

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Country
  • Parents

• I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fun
  • Career
  • College

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
  • Service

• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Government
  • Politics
  • More

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Travel

• Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Work
  • Singing

• I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Morning
  • Tea

• Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Morning