Ashley Thomas Quotes
I really like comedy because it is really fun to be in - even though you are playing it straight.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.
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The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
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I really like comedy because it is really fun to be in - even though you are playing it straight.
