Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I just can't read music.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
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The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.
