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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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'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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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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'Are you all right, sir?' asked Hezekiah.'Just fighting over old battles in my mind,' said John. 'It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.'
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As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.
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My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
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I want to work on environmental issues.
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I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
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I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.
