Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.
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I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
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Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.
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One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
