Ask Me Quotes - Page 20

• "You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

  Robert M. Price

  Heart, Atheism, Revival

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• People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.

  Alex Pettyfer

  People, Film, Love Making

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to prison and you went to college for a couple years?" I'm like "Yeah, I learned more in prison than I think I ever learned in college." That's the sad truth.

  Immortal Technique

  Couple, College, Thinking

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here? Where should I put the camera?" Or, "What's my motivation?" And I would say, "Do whatever you want!"

  Christopher Walken

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

  Michael Jackson

  Girl, Asks

  "Children 'saved me,' Michael Jackson said". "Dateline NBC" with Meredith Vieira, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.

  Mort Crim

  People, Parody, Bigs

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what my favorite book is, and in effect, there's always a capital-F Favorite, capital-B Book that I would like to write myself someday. I try to go for that ideal of writing the best, most entertaining, most beautifully written book that I possibly can.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

  Barkhad Abdi

  People, Political, Trying

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• I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Stars, War, One Day

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• People always ask me if Im nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesnt seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

  Magda Apanowicz

  People, Scary, Fans

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• Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.248

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• When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Kids, People

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Likes, Duty

  Agatha Christie, Christie (1982). “Haloween Party”, Pocket

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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Break Even, Bankers, Negative

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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• Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.

  Roman Polanski

  Artist, People, Hollywood

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Confidence, Self, What If

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

  Freya Stark

  People, Moral, Aim

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• If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

  Walter Payton

  Nfl, Want, Winner

  Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

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• I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Writing, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Trying, Honest

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.

  Michael Tait

  Artist, Giving, Want

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

  Brantley Gilbert

  Song, Drinking, People

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• Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

  Bess Myerson

  Grateful, Quiet, Asks

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• Not many people ask me out.

  Marina Sirtis

  People, Asks

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• Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them.

  Brooke Shields

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

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