Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner) Quotes
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands – old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.
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We're not drafting for next year's team. We're drafting for a talent base. An immediate need primarily is not as important as getting a player with the best potential available.
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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.
