Ashley Madekwe Quotes

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Believed
  • Seen

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Time
  • You
  • Boyfriend

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Up
  • Dark

• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Earning high returns isn't just a matter of bragging rights - endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • High
  • Education
  • College

• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

  

  David Johansen
  • People
  • Band
  • Jump

• I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • High