Kelly Asbury Quotes
I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.
Quotes to Explore
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
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I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
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Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
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I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.
