Ashton Eaton Quotes
I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.
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In addition to actual dramatic training and experience, I'd want as much education as possible.
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To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.
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I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.
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I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.
