Dana Ashbrook Quotes
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
