Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
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People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
