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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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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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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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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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.
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I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home!
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!
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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.
