Matthew Ashford Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.
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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
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I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.
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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
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I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
