Annaleigh Ashford Quotes
Since I was a little girl, I've collected ladybugs. Not real ones - I never had a weird ladybug farm!
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
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New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.
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I used to not walk out the door; I was so afraid. Everything from, 'You shouldn't be here,' down to, 'Girl, don't wear those pants.' I was so sad. I tried my best to not even look in a mirror!
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Since I was a little girl, I've collected ladybugs. Not real ones - I never had a weird ladybug farm!
