Aunjanue Ellis quotes
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“Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.”
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“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.”
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“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 EllisSource : "Aunjanue Ellis: Risk Taker". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.”
-- Aunjanue EllisSource : "Aunjanue Ellis on 'Abducted: The Carlina White Story'". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 2, 2012.
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“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 EllisSource : "Exclusive: Actress Aunjanue Ellis and Director Russell Costanzo Discuss 'The Tested'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. April 29, 2011.
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“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.”
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“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1707). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.55
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“Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.”
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Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
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Source : Martin Gardner (2005). “The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings”, p.136, Courier Corporation
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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