Elizabeth Ashley Quotes
The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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'Au Lecteur' To the Reader
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Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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I love anything by Sisley for face and Lancaster for body.
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I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.
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The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
