Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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So many ways to be deemed unclean
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In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
