Ashlee Simpson (Ashley Nicolle Ross-Næss) Quotes
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.
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'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
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The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
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The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.
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The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
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He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.
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I love, love, love women.
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I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.
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People will ask, 'And what do you do?'
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In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?
