Katie Ashley Quotes
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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Eres un fantoche, pero en las manos de lo infinito, que tal vez son tus manos.
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If you ask any of us which movie we were making when one of our kids was born, we'll be able to tell you instantly. It's like our family lives are permanently woven into the movies.
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I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
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When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
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I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.
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I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
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Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
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A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
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Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.
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For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
