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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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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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.
