Ashley McBryde Quotes
I've been in T- shirts and jeans since I was a kid. I don't have to show you a bunch of my skin for you to listen to my songs.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
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If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
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God built the Earth in seven days and seven nights, that's how I'm going to approach doing the album. So when it's time for me to actually finish up the album and do final cuts of everything, I'm going to line it up in seven days and seven nights. I'm going to document it, out the footage out, show people it's not a fluke.
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Nothing is to wonderful to be true.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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I've been in T- shirts and jeans since I was a kid. I don't have to show you a bunch of my skin for you to listen to my songs.
