Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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What I do is I do my job.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
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Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
