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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She's got a way about her...I don't know what it is... but I know that I can't live without her...
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.
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I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.
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The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black community that was both bulwark to the larger white society as well as a threshing ground, so to speak, to hash out the differences that black people have among ourselves.
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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.
