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| • | "'I've been told I was washed up, down and dead several major times by heavyweights in the business,' she says defiantly, the defiance underlined by a sharp exhalation of smoke from one of the many Marlboros she lights up in the course of the afternoon ... She folds her legs beneath her, rocks to and fro, sends another gust of smoke heavenward and then piles her hair on top of her head ... She flings her cigarette lighter on the table", Washington Post, Nov. 29, '83 |
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| • | "she bounds into a room with a cigarette dangling from her lips and a glass of iced tequila in her hand", United Press International, Dec. 2, '89 |
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| • | "In her favorite bistro, where she periodically lit a cigarette and cheerfully denounced both yuppies and no-smoking fiends who've ruined most bistros", Associated Press, Dec. 4, '89 |
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| • | "admits to being an addicted smoker", Parade Magazine (insert), c. early '90's |
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| • | "'Omigawd, I'm so sorry to be late,' says the familiar voice, sounding like it was filtered through more than a few cigarettes", New York Daily News, Oct. 10, '95 |
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| • | "her voice is redolent of whiskey, cigarettes and the South", Miami Herald, Dec. 29, '96 |
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| • | "If Ashley...stops talking for more than a nanosecond, it is only to take a drag on the Carlton cigarette that dangles from her lips. Carltons are not much better than 'lettuce leaves' in her view, but they give her 'something to chew on' between thoughts indignant and sublime", Washington Post, May 31, '98
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| • | "Dressed in a sarong tied over a pair of comfortable trousers, she sat cross-legged on a chair, cigarette in hand, a milky coconut juice concoction in a glass on the table before her", Washington Times, Jun. 14, '98 |
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| • | "'Audiences here come to see rather than be seen at the theater. You get the feeling that they're really there, that if the acting was bad, they'd boo,' she says in the throaty voice that she attributes to fat vocal chords and not her constant smoking", Washingtonian, Jun. '98 |
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| • | "On another recent afternoon, lying down on a shabby backstage couch barefoot and smoking", Chicago Tribune, Jul. 23, '98 |
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| • | "Ashley's tenth-story apartment went up in flames last week after she left a lighted cigarette in a wastebasket while she went out for breakfast", Back Stage Magazine, Oct. 22, '99 |
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| • | "You know, people who smoke - even people like me, who smoke Carltons, which is like sucking cardboard - are instantly demonized... I put my cigarettes out in an ashtray and then dump water on it", New York Post, Oct. 25, '99
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| • | "Ashley, 60, a lifelong smoker whose fear of fire caused her habitually to douse ashtrays with bottled water, accidentally dumped a wet but still smoldering cigarette in a bedroom trash bin", People Magazine, Nov. 1, '99 |
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| • | "a life-long smoker", People Magazine, c. '99 |
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| • | "she plops down on the couch, lifts her glass of red wine and lights up the first of many cigarettes", Los Angeles Times, Apr. 24, '01 |
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| • | "Elizabeth Ashley is one of the great actresses of the stage. Still, as she sits with her vodka martini and a cigarette at a sidewalk cafe in Manhattan, no one recognizes her", Boston Herald, Jun. 19, '01 |
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| • | "'That part just had my name on it,' Ashley says in her trademark husky voice, with its flavorsome intimations of cigarettes, vodka and lots of living", Houston Chronicle, Aug. 26, '01 |
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| • | "Ashley, a Baton Rouge native, wanted to engage in local topical discussion. Interesting idea, in theory, but what Ashley did was hold court for two hours, pausing only to take drags on a cigarette and sip from her mysterious cocktails", New Orleans Times-Picayune, Dec. 4, '01 |
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| • | "Being an actor in a play is like being in the Marines,' the 63-year-old actress explains while puffing a Carlton in a cramped room that can barely contain her energy.", AP, c. May 8, '03 |
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| • | "taking another drag on her cigarette", Hartford Courant, Jan. 10, '08 |
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| • | "Ms. Ashley looks singularly unwhipped in black Chinese pajamas and tinted glasses, smoking Carltons and drinking a mixture of peach schnapps and vodka", New York Times, Jan. 20, '08
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| • | "When she asks if I mind if she smokes, I lie and say I don't mind. But then I ask her about Tennessee Williams and she is off and running; and during our hour-long talk, she never gets around to lighting up", website
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| • | "A fire destroyed her New York City apartment and lifelong momentos which she had recently shipped to NYC from California. The blaze was caused by a damp but smoldering cigarette which Ashley threw into her trash can before she left the apartment in the morning", website bio, when?
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