Ashley Thomas Quotes
Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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I like Drake's stuff.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
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I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be the "in music" at the time.
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After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.
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They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.
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Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.
