Ashley Graham Quotes
To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
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My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
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I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.
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To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.
