Ashley Scott Quotes
I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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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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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
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I like to keep almonds in my pantry. I also like to keep fruit on hand, just different types depending on the season. And string cheese - that's a really good one.
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We must get all the facts on the table, and then determine where we go.
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'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
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I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.
