Ella Mai Quotes
I like to leave things open to interpretation. But I also like to make a point. There's two meanings behind each EP title. With 'Time,' that was 'time to move on': you know, you've been in a bad situation; this is enough. But it was also time, in my life, for introducing myself, my first project I was putting out with Mustard. A new exciting time.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
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You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
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I like to leave things open to interpretation. But I also like to make a point. There's two meanings behind each EP title. With 'Time,' that was 'time to move on': you know, you've been in a bad situation; this is enough. But it was also time, in my life, for introducing myself, my first project I was putting out with Mustard. A new exciting time.
