Nickolas Ashford Quotes
I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.
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Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
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Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.
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I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
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In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.
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John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
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I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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Running a fast time is good; it's better than winning. You can win with a slow time. To me, it doesn't mean anything. I like running a fast race more than a slow race.
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Bobsled is the first time I decided, win, lose, or draw, I was all-in for all four years. I figured if I was going to step away from a very lucrative career, I owed it to myself and my family to see this through to the very end.
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I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
