H. F. Ellis Quotes

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.

Yoga is really big - I'm actually a certified teacher, although I've never taught classes at a studio. I really find myself drawn to more traditional styles.

One thing I do know is that we are fortunate to be here and we're here to try and better ourselves and to be good.

There's something so sweet about being on your yoga mat, whether that be at Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, or in my living room.

For all the yoga I do (and I do plenty), I also love the time I spend jogging. It gets me in sync with myself.

I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.

I'm not someone who obsesses about what they eat, but I do try to eat consciously and towards it being something that is super enjoyable. I love good food.

Love is when there is no denying "it"...that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside.

Try and benefit others, animals, the whole of the earth, as much as you can. And in that space, challenge yourself to find what it is you can bring about through your life's work.

For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key.

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

The fact that you can say stuff to people that other people are only thinking is always fun. It's a great tool for comedic moments, as well.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.

Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.

good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.

I don't function without a heart, he said angrily and thenadded under his breath as he grabbed at the front of his Tshirt, He's right here.

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)