Harry Hadden-Paton Quotes
I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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I listen to a lot of different styles of music. So it doesn't have to be just one thing. I prefer it. If it's not, I get bored very easily.
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I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.
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I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It's usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of body weight stuff.
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The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.
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I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.
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Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
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People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
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I love my mother a not-normal amount.
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Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
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Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.
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I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.
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One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.
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There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
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I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.
