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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After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.
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The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.
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NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.
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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.
