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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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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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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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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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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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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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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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
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We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.
