Michael Ashcroft Quotes
We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I love books.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to get involved with one of the attacking sides, and allowed it to destroy a whole village. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. The tragedy in Srebrenica is well known in Europe.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
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We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
