Elizabeth Ashley Quotes

The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

Elizabeth Ashley

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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.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Fun
  • Game

• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Reality
  • Violence
  • Chinese

• I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Play
  • Fashion
  • Like

• In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Find
  • Journalism
  • Sweat

• 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.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Age
  • Loved
  • Animals

• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Success
  • Best
  • Consequences

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Job
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Man
  • You

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  

  John Ruskin

• When you get older, you start to doubt, and you put limitations on yourself. But little Teyonah had no fear.

  

  Teyonah Parris
  • Fear
  • Older
  • Limitations

• I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Relationship

• I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

  

  August Wilson
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Respect

• Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Light
  • Deal

• The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Devil