Annaleigh Ashford Quotes
In 'Kinky Boots,' I looked for moments to be bold, showing Lauren's gutsiness and smarts. She's a little bit kooky now, too, and I love me some kooky.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
-
Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
-
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
-
I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
-
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
-
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
-
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
-
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
-
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
-
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
-
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
-
I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.
-
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
-
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
-
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
-
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
-
The best project is one that asks a novel question.
-
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
-
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
-
That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
-
If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
-
One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
-
In 'Kinky Boots,' I looked for moments to be bold, showing Lauren's gutsiness and smarts. She's a little bit kooky now, too, and I love me some kooky.
