Ashley Madekwe Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
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For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
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We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?
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The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.
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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.
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We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
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We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.
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I don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a matter of which way we walk home. I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, than I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high-school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street ... or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.
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It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
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There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.
