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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It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.
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But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
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My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.
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The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
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Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.
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I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.
