Hal Ashby Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.
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I don't like to tell lies.
