Ashley Nell Tipton Quotes
Sky's the limit. I don't have a vision, because I want to do everything that I can.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
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Twilio is a great example of a company executing tremendously well on its vision and delivering a beautiful set of products that solves real problems.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Sky's the limit. I don't have a vision, because I want to do everything that I can.
