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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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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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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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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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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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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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 you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.
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I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.
