Dana Ashbrook Quotes
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.
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In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
