Ashley Jensen Quotes
I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Networking is working.
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Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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No one eats pretty.
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I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
