Ashley Graham Quotes
The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I think Michael Moore is a hero.
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But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
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The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.
