Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.
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Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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To finish the Olympics like this with these four guys, there is nothing like it.
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The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.
