Hire them. Boost their signal. Read them, listen to them. Pay them.— Actress Ashlie Atkinson on the best ways to support other women
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Sometimes I think I should be doing something more community-oriented, or go back to school to be a doctor or a lawyer or something. And then I am moved profoundly by a work of art and I remember that art saves lives too.— Actress Ashlie Atkinson discusses her biggest challenges
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“If I could do it all again, I would spend a helluva lot less time worrying about where I fit in, how much I weighed, and where I saw myself in the hierarchy of wherever I was, and spend way more time making stuff. By myself or with my friends. When someone says you can’t make money doing the thing you want to do, that is their FEAR talking. If you work hard enough, and I mean really work hard, and don’t let your point of view get too diluted, you’ll make it. Just start early and don’t stop.”
~ Actress Ashlie Atkinson
left: Ashlie with Jeremy Piven, Keri Russell and Andrew McCarthy at the premiere of Fat Pig; modeling for Gwynnie Bee; with Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things
right: Ashlie in the award-winning indie film Compliance, in the movie Eat Pray Love, and guest starring on Elementary
(Source: katehart.net)
I had definitely told people to kiss my grits before leaving town, and here I was, back with my tail in between my legs. A complete failure. But in a way, it was a blessing. I ended up being free of other people’s expectations in a way I hadn’t anticipated. There had been a trajectory planned for me, and my fizzling out so soon after launch because of a mental health issue meant that now my future was a blank slate. It was up to me what I wanted to do.— Actress Ashlie Atkinson discusses failing out of college and starting over (and going on to succeed in a big way).
(Source: katehart.net)
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Badass Ladies You Should Know:
Actress Ashlie Atkinson
Ashlie Atkinson is everywhere. She’s on your TV screen, hanging out with Liz Lemon and chatting with Sherlock and solving crimes on Law and Order. She’s in your movie theater, rubbing elbows with Leo and Julia and Denzel and Tom. She’s on stage in New York, winning awards and working alongside Cythia Nixon. She’s kicking your ass in roller derby as Margaret Thrasher, the Prime Minister of Your Demise, or as a character in a video game, or modeling for Gwynnie Bee, or just slinging drinks in a Brooklyn bar. Hell, she was in a Kings of Leon video before they were cool (and well before they weren’t anymore).
Luckily for us, she’s also from Little Rock, and happened to hang out with the same crew of dirty hippies I knew at Hendrix College. She was a badass then, but she’s sure as hell upped the ante now.
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