Ashley Smith Quotes
I could go speak to people for the next three years every day if I wanted to, but I'm not going to make my child do that.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I am not honest.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
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Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.
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I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.
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Isnt it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youre with some other ones Its stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!
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I could go speak to people for the next three years every day if I wanted to, but I'm not going to make my child do that.
