Ashley Jensen Quotes
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I am not a party person.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
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Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it's paid off.
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
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I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
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I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credetServitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extatQuam sub rege pio.
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Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
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Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
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Love your flaws, and own your quirks.
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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?
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As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.
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No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'
