Kate Ashfield Quotes
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
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I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
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I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
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I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
