Elizabeth Ashley Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.
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Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system. A resilient, efficient system needs to be diverse and interconnected. On the other hand, diversity and interconnectivity decrease efficiency. Therefore, the key is an appropriate balance between efficiency and resilience.
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Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
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I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.
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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
