Annaleigh Ashford Quotes
I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
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I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.
