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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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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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.
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Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
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I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.
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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.
