Ashley Thomas Quotes

I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Mind
  • Black

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Together
  • Science
  • Interesting

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• I've always been a sharing person.

  

  Young Thug
  • Always
  • Person
  • Sharing

• Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Alone
  • Rest

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.

  

  Lucretius

• If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Believe
  • Lying
  • Unmasked

• In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Black
  • Way

• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Hope

• I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • Hope