Ashley McBryde Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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The world needs some help.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.
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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
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You know me: jeans, T-shirts, boots, all the time.
