Aunjanue Ellis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Pain #Adjusting #Way
I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Emotional #Thinking #Messages
I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Want #Married #Kind
Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Drama #Signatures #Roles
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Thinking #America #Interesting
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Strong #Race #Black
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Grief #Air #Breathing
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

#Morning #Character #Safety

In my opinion, everybody has the same soul from God and we are united by that. Outside, our bodies are different, our faces are different, but inside we are all the same, we share the same feelings of sadness, love, pain My music comes out of these feelings. Whether it is Japanese music, African, Qawalli, or any other form of music, if it touches your heart it becomes important for me.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.
The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand.
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Aunjanue Ellis famous quotes

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