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.
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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.
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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.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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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.
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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.'
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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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.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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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!
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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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.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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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.
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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.
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I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
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The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.
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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.
