Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

Annaleigh Ashford

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• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Great
  • Matter
  • Authority

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Political

• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Born
  • Need
  • Singer

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Young
  • Cinema

• He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

  

  Sallust
  • Angry
  • Nothing
  • Anger

• As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Children
  • School
  • Fashion

• The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Thinking

• It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Party
  • Leaving

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Country
  • War
  • America

• Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul

• There was a time when I was 23 years old that I thought my career was over because I couldn't move my hand. It turned out it was just a pinched nerve.

  

  George Perez
  • Time
  • Career
  • Hand

• I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Trying
  • Chance
  • Track

• I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Money
  • Learning
  • Meditation

• Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Life
  • Love
  • Respect

• I always connected renting a car with being an adult. If you think about it, it's the last frontier of your youth. You can join the military at 18, drink when you're 21, but you can't rent a car.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Car
  • Military

• Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford