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• When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

  Ashley Judd

  Growing Up, Kids, Water

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• My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

  Ashley Judd

  Mother, Eyelashes, Dresses

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• Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

  Ashley Judd

  Success, Spiritual, Morning

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• She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Thinking, Arrows

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• I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

  Ashley Judd

  Special, Purpose, Assured

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• Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.

  Ashley Judd

  Suicide, Teenager, Men

  "Helen : Film Review & Interview with Ashley Judd". Interview with Joseph Smigelski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Sex, Vulnerable

  "Ashley Judd: The Good Fight". Interview with Lucy Kaylin, www.marieclaire.com. November 13, 2006.

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• For Native Americans, the most shameful and powerful corrective gesture is to literally and physically turn one's back upon a person who has transgressed, and then after they've been banished for a while, they come back into the circle and the members of the tribe say every good thing that person has ever done, because they have to be welcomed back.

  Ashley Judd

  Powerful, Native American, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

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  Basketball, Kentucky, Wind

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• Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

  Ashley Judd

  Inspirational, Married, Incredibles

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• You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Interview: Ashley Judd And Kevin Kline". Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

  Ashley Judd

  Hiking

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• More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

  Ashley Judd

  Two Sides, People, Urban

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• I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Giving, Lazy

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• Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

  Ashley Judd

  Meaningful, Fun, Important

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• I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Needs, Want

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• Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Husband, Giving, Left Alone

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• My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

  Ashley Judd

  Worship, Vocation

  Ashley Judd, Maryanne Vollers (2011). “All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

  Ashley Judd

  Artist, Men, The End Of The Day

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• The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Empowering, Empowerment

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• When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

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  Character, Eye, Doors

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• Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

  Ashley Judd

  People, Privilege, Yeah

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• I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

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  Lonely, Widows, Being Lonely

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• I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

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  Responsibility, Shepherds, Talent

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• It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

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  Race, Firsts, Speak

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