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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As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.
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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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I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.
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Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
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The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
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There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.
