Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

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• Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.

  

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• Someone once asked me what my working timetable was like and when was the last time I went on a holiday. I said about 20 years back. I don’t work anymore, because I get paid to do what I like most. So it’s like a paid holiday.

  

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• As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford