Niki Ashton Quotes

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• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Want
  • You
  • Movies

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Play
  • Like
  • Possible

• Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Why
  • Rich

• For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Character
  • Reality
  • Me

• Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Help
  • You
  • Young

• I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope

• On the Kurds They're the most fucked people on Earth. You know that. They might as well change their name to the Fucks, 'cause they're fucked. We used to be the Kurds, now we're the Fucks!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Earth

• Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Brother
  • Sun

• Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Victory
  • Champagne

• This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Cutting

• I need to set the record straight for myself.

  

  Corey Clark

• The kind of role I play is like an offensive lineman; doing a good job but not being noticed. I feel sorry for myself sometimes. But as long as the end result is there, I can dig it.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Good
  • Long
  • Job

• I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Long
  • Book
  • War

• Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  

  John Fletcher
  • Good

• Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Future

• If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Meditation

• It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.

  

  Dwight Schultz
  • People

• Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.

  

  Niki Ashton
  • Believe
  • Leadership
  • Approach