Annaleigh Ashford Quotes
I'll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you'll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
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I'll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you'll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.
