Aunjanue Ellis Quotes

I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

Aunjanue Ellis

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1969

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At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Anna Kournikova

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I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

John Sladek

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I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

Steve Carell

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My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.

Stephen Colbert

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No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Stephen Hawking

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My grandparents were always farmers.

Travis Fimmel

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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

Lou Holtz

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Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

Julia Barr

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In my career, all my most important breaks have come from Edinburgh. Winning awards, being reviewed, bagging my BBCR4 series and the chance to tour has all come from Edinburgh, which begs the question, why the hell have I left it so long to come back?

Dominic Holland

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Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Chazz Palminteri

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For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

Colson Whitehead

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You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Clive Owen

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