Ashley Nell Tipton Quotes
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
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Barack Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.
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I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
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I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.
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There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.
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I didn't binge when I was pregnant.
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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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I follow a lot of the plus-sized bloggers.
