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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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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William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.
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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
