Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.
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Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.
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Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.
