Evelyn Ashford Quotes
Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.
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You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
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Deep down I'm a very shallow person.
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
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I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.
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That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
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Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
