Ashley Jensen Quotes
I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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My health is fine.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I hate competition.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
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I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.
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If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.
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I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.
