Ashley Jensen Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.
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Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.
