Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I am tone deaf.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!
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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.
