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
  • Need
  • Born
  • Singer

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • May
  • Stop
  • Years

• '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

• Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Work
  • Think
  • Promotion

• A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Today
  • Space
  • Farm

• 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

• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Always
  • Feelings
  • Blues

• I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

  

  Celia S. Friedman
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Islands

• If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Education
  • Generation
  • Paid

• Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford