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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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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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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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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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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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
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I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
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Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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The same basic ingredients are found repeatably: fueled by initially well founded economic fundamentals, investors develop a self-fulfilling enthusiasm by an imitative process or crowd behavior that leads to an unsustainable accelerating overvaluation.
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
