Ashanti (Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas) Quotes
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.
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Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
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If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.
