Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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In my beginning is my end.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
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Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
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Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
