Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
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Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Leave people better than you found them.
