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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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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John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
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I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
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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.
