Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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I love taking chances.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
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I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
