Ashton Eaton Quotes
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
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We can't always trust what we see in museums, but we can certainly ALWAYS trust what we read in the Bible.
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We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.
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On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.
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It is possible that this may be the end. I don't seek it, but it's within the logical realms of probabilities. If it should be so, I send you a final embrace.
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A perfect scenario would be to feel like you've just started on every event.
