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 care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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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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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.
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I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
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In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.
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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.
