Ashley Jensen Quotes
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even - except I don't spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.
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I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.
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My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
