Ashley McBryde Quotes
I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
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My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
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Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?
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I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'
