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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We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
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The Internet has meant that advertising has migrated; there are hardly any classifieds in newspapers any more because they're all online. If people have a car to sell, for example, they sell it online; they don't go to the newspaper.
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I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.'
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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.
