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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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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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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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.
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I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
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I have to believe in myself. I have to be my biggest advocate or I would crumble.
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
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It's a different world.
