Ashley Young Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
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I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
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Everything comes out of what works for me.
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With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.
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Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.
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A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
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It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.
