John Ashcroft Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.
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When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.
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It's a different world.
