Ralph Marston Quotes
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to my success because when I meet people, I see a piece of myself in them. And maybe they see a piece of themselves in me.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
