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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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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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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To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.
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Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us. (p. 59)
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If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you know, I'm not saying roll out a red carpet, but, like, open the door and just be polite and just have common courtesy. I don't think that's too much to ask.
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
