Ashlee Simpson (Ashley Nicolle Ross-Næss) Quotes
I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Writers are so important.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.
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Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.
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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.
