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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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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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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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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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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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
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A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
