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.
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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.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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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.
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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.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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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.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
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Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.
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It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
