Ashley Wagner Quotes
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.
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I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul.
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In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.
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Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
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I'm very much a technical person.
