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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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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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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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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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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When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.
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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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I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
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My district has a lot of trade-dependent jobs.
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I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
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We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
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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.
