"When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued."

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Source : "Nelsan Ellis, ‘True Blood’ Star, Returns To Chicago To Direct ‘HooDoo Love’". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2012.

Nelsan Ellis

#Art Quotes #School Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.”
“I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.”
“When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press
“God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.”

Source : Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway
“I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.”
“Work for your own soul's sake.”
“God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.346
“I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.”

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