Ashley Bell Quotes
My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
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The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.
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What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.
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I'd love to play a musician in a film.
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I'm a music person. Music is, for me, the best way to cure any sort of anxiety or icky feelings. I think it immediately takes you out of your element and makes some other person do the work for your thoughts.
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My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
