Aaron Koblin Quotes
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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