Ashley Madekwe Quotes

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Positive

• Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Funny
  • Mean
  • Being

• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Nobody

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • School
  • Poetry

• I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • May
  • Sometimes

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Twitter

• I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Truth
  • Deep
  • Down

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Ocean

• I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Despair
  • Accountant
  • Receipts

• And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • School
  • Powerful
  • Choice

• In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • America
  • Think
  • Change

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Thinking
  • War

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Want
  • Fashion

• You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Funny
  • Sad

• I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Trying
  • Action
  • Drama

• That's what I love - to be pushed out of my comfort zone.

  

  Belinda Johnson

• You're always gonna have your anorexics and you're always gonna have your bulimics. I'm hoping that young girls will look up to the girls that are the size 4, 6, and 8's, and know that super super skinny is not pretty - just ask any guy!

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Think
  • King
  • Crown

• I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

  

  Ashley Madekwe