Ashley Graham Quotes
I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
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We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'
