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 never listen to music when I write.
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Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
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I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.
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You know me: jeans, T-shirts, boots, all the time.
