Danny Aiello Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
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In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
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I did three years training for stage in drama school.
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I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.
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I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
