Elizabeth Ashley Quotes

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Young
  • Had
  • Engineer

• I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Team
  • Matter
  • Most

• I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

  

  Mako
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Child

• It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Responsibility
  • Big

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Think
  • City
  • Leaving

• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Mind
  • Class
  • Then

• Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Really
  • Scene
  • Ecstasy

• I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Day
  • Guitar
  • Relax

• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Kind
  • Leisure

• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Fear

• I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • You
  • Play
  • Stage

• I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Great
  • Violence

• The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Role

• Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Frustration
  • Technique
  • Gains

• We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Today
  • Action
  • Support

• The church's job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • Long
  • Job

• What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Lies
  • Drag
  • Elucidate

• Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Love
  • Divinity
  • Invades

• The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley