Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • America
  • England
  • Greater

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • People
  • War
  • Nature

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Bring

• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Dress

• I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • High
  • Want

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Culture
  • See
  • Said

• I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Me

• As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Community
  • Action

• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  

  Meshell Ndegeocello
  • People
  • Community
  • Media

• I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • Community