Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
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African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.
Chaka Fattah -
A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.' That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It's kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.
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The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.
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I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.
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I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.
