Ashley Thomas Quotes
I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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For your information, I would like to ask a question.
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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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I'm still true to my Southern roots.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.
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I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
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Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
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I like having written better than I like having acted.
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I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.
