Ashley Giles Quotes
It's fantastic for the game, hopefully we have done a lot for it already and hopefully we can do a bit more yet.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.
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I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.
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It's fantastic for the game, hopefully we have done a lot for it already and hopefully we can do a bit more yet.
