Jay Ellis Quotes

After the success of 'Empire' and 'How to Get Away with Murder' and 'Scandal' and 'Power' and 'Black-ish', which all had characters that were genuine, authentic, and had the language of real people, I found myself coming into pilot season and every network just wanted to have their version of one of those shows.

Jay Ellis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1981

Topics

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Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.

Aneurin Barnard

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Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly.

John Waters

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It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

Sparky Anderson

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I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

Simon Cowell

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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

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I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.

Ron Francis

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People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.

Mike Love

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The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

Lubna Olayan

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I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

Dennis Muren

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Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Denise Mina

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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

Chris Ware

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