Ashley Thomas Quotes
Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.
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We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.
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Sometimes it's great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start.
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It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
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Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
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Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.
