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I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.

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• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

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• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

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• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

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• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

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• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

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• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

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• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

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• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

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• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

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• You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

  

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• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

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• Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

  

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• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  

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• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

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• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

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• The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

  

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• Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.

  

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• Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

  

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• Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

  

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• I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • Art
  • Christian
  • Religious