Ashlyn Harris Quotes
I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.
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I learned a lot of things from those big, big directors. And a lot of it was what I didn't want to do.
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I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.
