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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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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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've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.
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I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day to pay your rent and get food, I just don't see where there's time outside of that to be creative and make things.
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Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.
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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.
