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 that the things that are interesting sometimes, when you're striving for a sound, you just get it wrong 'cause of your own limitations. That's when you get something kind of original.
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Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.
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The re-interpretation and eventually sic eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.
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I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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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.
